Countering Piracy aka Publishers Are Morons

[twesterm]

code.samurai said:

twesterm said:

Kenny said:

twesterm said:

 

I can agree with that, but sadly if people don't see OMG KILLER GRAPHICS 60 HOUR AAA GAME!!!!!!!! they think it must suck and then it doesn't make money.  If a game doesn't make money, it isn't a success.  Games like MGS4's, FFXIII's, and Gears of War 2's raise an unrealistic bar.

 

That was more of a joke, I wasn't serious.

 

My sarcasm detector is confused because of all the times I've seen people use that actual argument seriously.  It's actually pretty reassuring to see so many of these insane arguments on vgchartz turn out to be nothing more than sarcasm.

 

 

I take any chance I can to take cheap shots at pirates and call them dicks, even if it means bad jokes. 

Yes bad jokes and you also forgot quite lame.  We all agree piracy hurts the industry.  The point is that the game publishers are pursuing the wrong steps to stop them, the dicks will always find a way circumvent technology.  The dicks have been doing this for ages now, reverse engineering has become an art.  Address the customers needs via better pricing and better way to evaluate if they like the game (in the OP) and you will see piracy dramatically decrease.  I wonder how many Apple Store customers used to get their stuff from the old Napster and Audiogalaxy, hm...

1. So do you expect them to just stop all efforts then?
2. I use to get all my music free from Napster before iTunes and now I only get it from iTunes (and sometimes Zune, Yahoo Music, or Amazon if iTunes doesn't have it).