Valve on Piracy

[Kasz216]

JaggedSac said:

Kasz216 said:

Videogames aren't so much products even.  They're more services then anything else.  The service of creating a game... and should be sold as such.

So it should be a pay as you play model?  Because that is how most services work.  Monthly bill depicting how much gaming you did via the service they provided.

No.  Pay as they create.

Look at the aforementioned Mount and Blade.  It's development was paid for via Beta keys.

 

Pay as you create/advertising is the way it should work.

Though pay as you play/MMO models to work well as well for some games.

 

It's how playwriting used to work.