Garcian Smith on 05 October 2008
| .jayderyu said: I think the issue is over rated. The percentage of pirating going on is in relation of product to tech savvy. Way back in the day before Windows it was all DOS with command.com/prompt. You didn't have casual users. Piracy was extremly rampant. To the point that there was little topic of piracy. It was a non issue. It wasn't until the push of easy access gaming, new gamers coming in at windows.... So the massive piracy back then was definetly higher. So if the companies are right gaming should have died in th early 90s. Regardless these companies even the small tiny ones prospered. So how did rampant piracy, pathetic copy protection allowed or created a massive industry in elite enviroment. With now days companies bemoaning how piracy is detroying them? what happened. |
In the early '90s, the Internet in its current form didn't even exist. Are you seriously comparing a handful of nerds on whatever proto-'net existed at the time to the extremely easy availability of programs like BitTorrent today?
"'Casual games' are something the 'Game Industry' invented to explain away the Wii success instead of actually listening or looking at what Nintendo did. There is no 'casual strategy' from Nintendo. 'Accessible strategy', yes, but ‘casual gamers’ is just the 'Game Industry''s polite way of saying what they feel: 'retarded gamers'."
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