Another Look At Piracy

[Final-Fan]

vlad321 said:

Final-Fan said:
Now here's where I have to call bullshit.  Earlier you gave examples of games that were more than worth the money:  "I spent $80 for D2 LoD, and I spent hundreds of hours on it, many many hundreds. $70 for Starcraft and Warcraft 2 and 3 and I spent hundreds of hours out of them. UT2004 set me back only $50.Don't even get me started on the value of Civ 4.  FInally, while I have spent around $750 on WoW, I have 250 days of /played. That's 6,000 hours.

"Why should I pay $60 for MW2 which is a re-tread of a game, and is utter shit when it comes to features? Same goes for jsut about any shooter that has come out since 2005, except for Metro 2033 which had some amazing new features, and Portal."

But now I'm supposed to believe that SC2 isn't going to measure up?  If you spend hundreds and hundreds of hours on a game (a precedent set by SC1), then you are the biggest fucking crybaby liar in the world if you are seriously going to try to convince me that you can't put up $60 for it.  LAN or no LAN, playtime tells the tale. 

And in any case, where do you get off being "disappointed" by low piracy levels EVER? 

I will admit, D2 LoD, I spent playing on Bnet. However SC I spent far far longer playing on LAN than I did on Bnet, and Warcraft 3 was 50/50 solely because I wasn't geographically close to the people I played with . Remove LAN from SC2, and those hundreds of hours can be cut drastically, making it not worth it. That is even more true considering I now have a laptop to carry around for SC2 and not a desktop, making LAN even more viable than before.

I'd be disappointed because that means consumers decided to get a shaft up their ass instead of sticking a shaft up a developer's ass to put them in their place.

OK, that's a more reasonable argument.  But I strongly suspect that when LAN is unavailable, SC's siren call will lead you straight to Bnet instead of you just not playing MP at all. 

As for your second point, BULLSHIT.  You put them in their place by refusing to buy overpriced or under-quality product.  Not "refusing to buy, followed by piracy".