Pirates truly have no shame

[Chemical]

Ail said:

Chemical said:

twesterm said:

I don't care why you pirate games (though the money excuse is still bullshit) but I do at least respect you admit you're a cheap fuck and that makes you somewhat better than the people that sit there and lie to themselves.

And yes, piracy does hurt developers.  That is why so many of them do not like putting their games on PC's or do not give their PC version half the attention they give their console versions.

 

From what I have read in interviews with developers, the main issue is the fact that they dont want to optimize the game for all different possibilities of Cpu, ram and video card.

Ail and twestern thank you for amusing me with your little crusade against piracy. It is fun to observe people battle against something that causes very little damage while ignoring a much bigger threat, used game sales.

 

I'm going to take a guess and say you don't work in the software industry.

I do so I actually have a clue of what damage it is causing to the industry I work in...

If you can find a definitive way of telling how much it costs you then go ahead and share. And before you ask, taking stats of how many copies were downloaded and multiplying it by 50$ is not a definitive way.

People think that I am crazy when I talk about piracy having a positive effect. But then people dont look at Music industry, PSP and Anime industry. If it wasnt for piracy we would never have itunes and an ability to download songs that we want to have instead of paying for a cd on which 10 out of 12 songs are filler. Every single anime that ever comes out in United States gets fansubbed beforehand and yet there was not a single big case in which a licensing company stopped fansubbers because PIRACY GAVE THEM FREE PUBLICITY.

Every good game that doesnt sell well has lack of advertisement to blame, mainly because developers cant afford it, but with piracy you can have huge word of mouth effect.