vlad321 on 23 October 2009
Jereel Hunter said:
vlad321 said:
Jereel Hunter said:
vlad321 said:
Jereel Hunter said:
I love how nothing you've said is remotely backed up by your link. You give your own reasons for why CoD or Bioshock sold poorly on PC, (though experts - and the developers - would say piracy) with no basis. And then you list stats for a few games based on 1 year's bittorrent estimates. Reading the page you linked, Spore had 1.7 MILLION downloads within the first couple MONTHS of it's release. And you're using that to defend your claim that there's not much piracy? Or Assassin's Creed? I'll go off the stats from the page you listed - It had a million pirated copies downloaded in '08. 700K of those were before it launched. It's first few months on the market, it sold 40,000 copies.
http://uk.gamespot.com/news/6195570.html
Pirated copies outnumbered those sold 17 to 1. and this game was critically acclaimed, it didn't suffer due to "poor quality." Are you done, or you want to make up some more excuses and link more vaguely relevant data to support it?
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If you look at the numbers Spore sold 1 million day one alone. While those numbers are for the whole last 3 weeks. I don't feel I have to provide the CoD and BioShock data since you provided none of your own that conecerns piracy at all. If anything your data showed console agmers are fine with playing crap games.
Assassin's Creed and and the rest wee subpar games to games that have come out a decade ago. Hence the "poor quality." Maybe if hey released good games they wouldn't be pirated. Why arent any Valve or Blizzard games up there? Most of the ones I see are multi-platform and subpar, except for spore/sims which Hhave sold quite well. Again, show me good games being pirated more on PC than being sold then you can start using your bullshit facts to bac up what IW is doing.
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Quality not being pirated is a stupid excuse. There's nothing to indicate that pirates only choose to steal bad games. That reasoning doesn't even make sense.
As for pirating blizzard games - WC3 was pirated to a massive degree - log onto servers liek GArena and you'll see the majority of people using pirated copies. What has blizzard released recently? WoW and expansions, which is a MMORPG, can't really be pirated effectively. as for Valve, doesn't steam use some sort of special autheticating to prevent piracy?
And I love how you keep calling my facts "BS." While you're responses include nothing but opinions and unbacked stats.
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I didn't say famous games arent pirated. I'm saying you telling people pirate rate is hgher than sell rate is utter bullshit. You haven't showed us ANYTHING to back your stats up, not one piece of data, not even personal opinion.
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what? I didn't? So the articles I linked with developer estimates don't count? Or the article where Ubisoft sued because they verified that 700k copies of Assassins creed were DLed via torrents prior to it's release don't count as anything(despite that number being vastly more than the game even sold on PC)? The only person not backing in their claims is you.
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ASSASSIN'S CREED WAS A POS GAME ON THE PCs. NO ONE GAVE A FUCK ABOUT IT! It had a frikken 79 on metacritic. It's a shit game, shit games get pirated. Ok I'll give you that... So make a good game then?
