shio said:
richardhutnik said:
Xelloss said:
GG IW, you might be rolling in bank from the console versions, but you still missed out on tens of millions you would have had, had you not been so arrogant.
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What 10s of millions were going to buy Modern Warfare 2? How copies of the PC version of COD4 were sold? Someone here said it outsold the console versions, making COD4 a 20+ million total sales title, which it hasn't shown to me. Millions of pirated copies of a gamer doesn't matter to a game company at all. And if a game is pirated at a rate of 10 copies for every sale, then that is a pandemic problem.
Have any idea what the total sales for COD4 were on the PC? There is indication that piracy was rampant though:
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/gaming/2008/01/17/call_of_duty_4_piracy_is_rampant/1
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Why even bring up piracy? The most successful games are also the most pirated. Piracy didn't stop Guild Wars from selling 5 millions, or Sins of a Solar Empire from selling 1 million, or Bejeweled from selling 20 millions, etc...
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In a marketspace that isn't the same size as consoles, which has a big issue of piracy. Consoles don't. The industry is cracking down on used game sales, as opposed to piracy. And, in terms of maximizing revenues, that is what counts to the videogame industry on a whole, and I am including PC game development in this.
