dorbin2009 said:
MAFKKA said:
nightsurge said:
CommonMan said:
Seems like more and more people feel that they should get things for free. Especially if they feel the item doesn't live up to their arbitrary expectations. |
Exactly. And all they are going to do by pirating it, rather than just not buying it, is give developers more of an excuse to move development to consoles or implement even more DRM.
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^ Well the 360 still have 220.000 pirated downloads. So at the moment, i'd say they give developers more of an excuse to move development to the PS3 rather than to "consoles", if your point would claim any value. But yes, i understand what you're saying. Piracy on PC is a problem according to developers.
Still, i think it's not only the Pirate's to blame. I think the platform where games are distributed also needs a look-over, much like the Movie and Music industries are working on. Now services like iTunes, Spotify and Voddler exsists, that delivers a great service where users actully feel its worth coughing up money.
I mean... take MW2 as an example. They go out with info that MW2 for PC is going to get matchmaking instead of dedicated servers. And the PC community feels that this will never work. Had IW released a PC demo, alot of PC gamers might've found out that they could still make it work, i.e they go out and buy the game on release day. But in this case IW drops a bomb, the community is in outrage, and IW just continue on with their everyday life, and later blames the PC community for having a piracy problem.
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As long as something is available for free you are going to have a good number of people downloading it. It's been this way ever since the old Kazaa days. I think the ironic thing is is that the outrage over DRM usually boils down to the lack of being able to pirate as efficiently. I know some will say otherwise, but honestly what it comes down to is "Let me torrent this game. Why can't I torrent it. (or Usenet it, if you want to be trendy), oh It has DRM ? Protest. The PC gaming community is a dying breed only because 99 percent of games are pirated to no end.
The 360 point you have is sort of moot, only because 220k out of a lifetime 7-10 million unit seller is a paltry sum compared to the PC version, which might hit 2 million lifetime if it is lucky. Do you know what the difference is? You need (system link aside) Xbox live to play with other 360 owners. You play by their rules. On the PC, pirates can usually get by unscathed. That is why when this "outrage" happened over a lack of private servers , I had to laugh a little bit.
The most hilarious thing about pirates? When you ask them why they do it, the answer is either "Because I can" or a masked version of "Because I Can".
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