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Jereel Hunter on 29 October 2009
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vlad321 said:
Jereel Hunter said:
vlad321 said:

Obviosuly it's not LTD if the game still sells so much so the game gets bought well more than it gets pirated.

It's sales are a trickle of what they were - but that doesn't mean it's sold more. SC sold what... 11 million copies? Chances are it sold most of that, at least 8 or 9 million of them.. in the first 3 years. It could have easily had twice that number in pirated copies, especially considering how big it is outside the US. Even though it has since sold up to 11 million, if it had 16-18 million pirated copies early on in its lifespan, its sales will never exceed that. The point is, there's no financial advantage for pirates to wait on games, so clearly even if piracy numbers are huge in the beginning, they may not have the same "legs."

Same with WC3. These were games that are still largely played today - legitimately and pirated.

Well... if my grandmother was a male I wouldn't exist. True. Also if consoles hadn't come along gaming wuld be better.This statement can only be considered deeply subjective, or downright false. Early gaming consoles are why we have PC games today. And to think that consoles are inferior for gaming is to assume that everyone prefers a mouse and keyboard to a controller, a more expensive peice of equiment for equivalent graphics, and a relatively small monitor instead of a TV. If The moon was made of cheese....

 

Point being, stop talking out of your ass and give statistics or stfu.

You first. Oh wait, I used a lot more stats than you, you just refused to read them.

P.S. Making top 10 PC sales charts, such as WC3 or SC battle chest isn't what's called a "trickle."

Granted, I underestimated the steadiness of the sales of those, assuming they were more frontloaded - however that does NOTHING to diminish my point that piracy is frontloaded, since there's no advantage to waiting for a cheap battlechest when you're paying $0 regardless. I'm not looking to dimished what blizzard has done - I love WC3 and still play it (mostly for DOTA these days). But playing it, particularly on alternate servers, has helped me to appreciate the SHEER VOLUME of illegal copies out there. And a note: for ages before SC/WC3 were patched to not require the CD, they had "No CD Loaders" readily available. You didn't need to torrent these games to have an illegal copy... install it at a friend's house, drop a no CD loader, and they're good to go to play on an alternate server. These stats are impossible to track, but easy enough to see by players.