| Mr Khan said: That's the key right there. When piracy is not only cheaper, but far more user-friendly, what do they think people are going to do? It's simple economics, just like how people will pay more for something that's easier to do (like how console games are generally easier to acquire legitimately than to pirate, whereas its the other case for a lot of PC software), but legitimate PC software generally has no economic advantage (aside from the hazier concept of increased risk of prosecution). |
totally agree here. If a company makes good software/hardware/games/music/whatever and sells it at a fair price and gives me reasonable freedom of action on what devices I can copy it to etc, I have no problem with paying for it. Heck, I'll even pay for it just to help support them even I could get it for free relatively easily through pirating. But if you're going to make it a pain in the ass to do it legitimately (I'm looking at you ubisoft), why the heck would I not pirate it? Like seriously, I could pirate Assassin's Creed for the PC far easier than I could actually get the damn thing to load from a legit install disc and I then would be able to play it without ahving to worry about finding a wifi access point. what the hell they've got to be thinking is beyond me..
OT: awesome comic.
Not trying to be a fanboy. Of course, it's hard when you own the best console eve... dang it
