Another Look At Piracy

[vlad321]

Jereel Hunter said:

Well, you're citation 7, that quote was pulled directly from that article - copied and pasted... a find on those words would show where it came from. Maybe you misread it? The first round of DRM additions they claimed increased sales and reduced downloads... though I honestly don't think their test was an accurate judge anyway.

As for having no right to want the same money - Blizzard, Valve, etc, companies make money from volume. It's easy for them to not have to charge for more quality if they sell 10x as much as everyone else. Even if some random nobody company puts out an excellent game, they're probably not going to achieve 8 figure sales. You're view is jaded - blizzard put sout games that are worth way more than everyone else - but they charge TOO LITTLE. You get way more than your money's worth. You CANNOT hold everyone to the exact same standard. And if you think everyone's games should cost relative to the quality of a blizzard title, you should just stick with blizzard titles. It's still not a justification for piracy - never was.

You should really quote the whole thing then andnot just the first half of the sentence, here "but sometimes it can have no benefit at all."

You do realize when Blizzard and Valve started, they weren't known. Half-Life was not the pinnacle of gaming, and Warcraft 2 and Diablo were not known, they got there just by being good and asking a fair price for them. Remember that one whole third of DOOM was shareware? It's not about whether you are new or not, it's about how good the product you release is nd if you ask a fair price for it. Don't even bother start with saying how production costs have risen, because the value of the product is not determined by the resources that went into it, but by its actual value. If some idiot spend 1 billion on a shit game, then there is no reason he should ask for $200 for it.