41% of all PC software is pirated

[vlad321]

NightstrikerX said:

Solid_Snake4RD said:

cheese_man said:
Good. I hope PC gaming dies. I just have a thing against it

 

YEAH me too

You have a thing agaist PC gaming? Something that has been the foundation of all console gaming to date and the foundation of gaming in general? Dispite all my love towards Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft. PC Gaming has brought leaps and bounds to the gaming industry the likes that the consoles cannot hope to reach anytime soon.

That being said, this is terrible news. But it begs ask the question, is this piracy being caused by a belief that PC software is too expensive? Or the ease it is to aquire pirated software? Either way piracy is wrong and I personally enjoy holding onto my boxes of my games as I obtain them but I know many people in real life who have pirated software. My brother for example, got a pirated copy of Windows Vista with his brand new computer. Would you believe that?

 

 

 

More like the consoles ar a decade behind the PC when it comes to features. LBP's stage creator? I'm pretty sure that's been around for well over 2 decades. FPS game frenzy? That happened around '98 with Quake, HL, UT, etc. Multiplayer? Been around for decades as well and there's so many features now on PC multiplayer it's sickening in comparison, can't vbelieve people actually PAY to play online on consoles still.... It's just an overall disaster.

 

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I do pirate any game that comes out and movie, but that's more along the lines of protection against the amazing amout of shit that has come out in the past few years. For instance, the last good single-player FPSes on any platform were HL2 (and episodes), and FEAR. If I haven't been doing this I would have actually paid for shsit like the new PoP, Crysis, Far Cry 2, etc. This goes for other genres as well, I've only bought (and subsequently, finished) about 4 games in the past year, year and a half.