Battlefield 3 Loses $2,000,000 in Launch Day Sales to Pirates

[kingofwale]

pezus said:

kingofwale said:

pezus said:

kingofwale said:
to be honest, DICE could do something about this.

why not sell Mutliplayer only game version? Entice those pirates with the single player, and then try to sell the multiplayer version.

It's not unheard of, how many games let you play the barebone version, and then try to get you to fork out for more?

You can't play the multiplayer anyway if you pirate the game. So, I guess you're not against this?

Against what? piracy? there has always been piracy out there, the key is to get some kind of money out of them. Selling a multiplayer only game would fill that void.

 

Frankly, I doubt people who pirated this game will be willing to fork over full price just to play multiplayer anyway. Even if they just sell it for 20 bucks each, that's 20 bucks x (whatever people) more than what they would've gotten otherwise

But you said they should give them the single player ( or at least a big part of it) and make them buy the multiplayer. You could argue that's precisely what some of those pirates did; tried the campaign and were blown away => bought the game for the multiplayer.

well, considering the single player is lustbuster and only 5 hours long, I ENCOURAGE DICE to do that.

however, if it were say.... Uncharted 3, then I say no. However, hackers are hackers, they will hack whatever they can to avoid paying a dime. In order to squeeze some money out of them, my proposal is really the only way. (sell multiplayer only game at lower cost)