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Jereel Hunter on 23 October 2009
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vlad321 said:
Jereel Hunter said:

You are stating an opinion, which justifies nothing, and is, in fact, contradicted by your own statement. 79 is hardly "POS". it's simply "good". And there's absolutely nothing, nowhere, ever, that indicated that bad games get pirated and good games get purchased. Yes, Good games sell more, and *GASP* good games get pirated more as well. Many excellent games are VERY widely pirated. The difference being that good games sell enough in ADDITION to also still turn a nice profit.

When an opinoin is held by most of the majority of a populationn it transcends into fact, Star War Holiday Special was cra, that's a fact, Assassin's Creed was crap, that's also a fact. Good games get pirated, however they aren't pirated more than they are sold, which is what YOU are saying and that's just bullshit. Also notice AC didn't even sell well on the PC.

If you are gonna cherry pick I want you to explain why Valve and Blizzard games aren't there, with their millions sold. Huh? Failing at cherry picking? Thought so...

Hey Chief, guess what? Most of the "majority of the population" that called AC crap, had, in fact, based that opinion off an unfinished pirated build of the game. AC's reputation (and sales) got wrecked by the pirated build that got heavily circulated before it's release.

As for your cherry picking argument... *sigh* if we were in person I would speak slower so you could understand, but I'll just have to hope you read my words more carefully(as I did respond to that). What games have blizzard released in the last 5 years? WoW, WoW expansions and... WC3? You expect to see a 3-4 year old game like WC3 on the top 10 pirated games list? If there was an accurate list, it CERTAINLY would have included WC3 for the 2 years after it's release. Even today, alternate servers like Garena are huge - every day tens of thousands of people play a 5 year old game on these servers, most of which use a pirated copy. (How do I know? Every time a new patch releases, the majority of the community must remain on the old version, and the handful of us with real copies have noone to play with until the cracked copies get updated) On a side note, blizzard wanted to remove LAN capability from SC2 for JUST THIS REASON. There were many discussions about it on this very site... So clearly, even blizzard realizes that making a quality product doesn't solve the piracy problem.

As for WoW and expansions, clearly even you must realize that you can't just download a MMORPG illegally and have it work just like any other game. MMORPGs are loved by developers both because of their subscription fees, and also the fact that pirating them requires an immense amount of effort, too much to be worthwhile, generally speaking.

As for Valve, I don't know why there games weren't on that list you posted. Then again, I don't know what games they released in that period for comparison.