| llewdebkram said: Who cares about people pirating and buying pirated games, I dont see any game developers crawling around in the dirt looking for food and having to drink filthy poluted water from the effects of their games being pirated. Quite honestly if I could steal all my music, movies and games, I would! |
I'm going to quote this from the thread where developers only recover 30% of their development costs because I think it applies here to.
I dont know whether that percentage is true or not but there is one thing I do know: there has been a lot of mergers recently. Activision Blizzard, EA and Bioware, the list can go on but I am lazy. Also Square-Enix(merged some time ago) has announced some time ago that they have a warchest for purchasing developers to expand in the west, Ubisoft announced something similar.
If you paid attention to E3 you would have noticed that pretty much every game that was shown was a sequel FFXIII, Gears of War 2, Fallout 3, Prince of Persia, Resident Evil 5 etc etc etc. You can also look at the most anticipated lists for the rest of the year and you will find a lot of sequels. Quoting Yahtzee here: "Back in NES days you could make a game about a chef riding cockroaches with a gun that shoots velocoraptors , now a game is considered innovative if the space marine protagonist has moustache. "
So while I'm sure that their are developers that are working at Walmart because they were laid off. This is the most likely result of piracy. Less inovation and fewer competitors. This Holiday season only has 3-4 games that I feel I need to have. Most Holidays, it's easily over a dozen and I never get to all of them. The video games industry is having record years nearly 20 billion in revenues and the top third party EA http://www.cnbc.com/id/25917631 can't even make money. I know most of you will say they don't deserve to make money. But then you expect them to make better games when they don't.
