Geohot KO's Sony. PS3 now open to Custom Firmware, homebrew and hacks.

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Euphoria14 said:

KylieDog said:

Euphoria14 said:

KylieDog said:

Euphoria14 said:

Like I said, show the post where I defended piracy and not homebrew.

You're the one who made the accusation.

"This is why the whole issue of piracy is overblown. Black Ops was pirated in 2010 more than MW2 was pirated in 2009 if I am not mistaken, but isn't it outselling it in the same span?"

 

This is trying to justify theft. 

 

Edit: saw your above post, it IS defending piracy, and it also ignores games with small margins for profit.

No that is not Kyliedog. Saying the claims of piracies effects on the industry are overblown is different from saying that I believe piracy is alright to do.

Come on  Kyliedog, just admit that you made a bogus claim about me, because you know damn well you did.

The effects of piracy may be overblown on massive sellers like CoD games, but your statement is very biased and does not acknowledge other games with small margins for profit.  The effect of piracy for these is very different compared to CoD.

 

You cannot have one rule for one game and another rule for another though.  Piracy as a whole hurts.  There are more lower sellers than CoD sellers.

I acknowledged from the start that piracy is a negative of a console being opened up. I know piracy has it's effects, I just believe it is not as big as people make it out to be. 

Do you hate the second hand market too? How about game rentals or letting many people you know borrow your games?

Piracy definitely has a significant negative impact against smaller games. 

On the 360 for example:

Dante's Inferno was pirated 1,280,000 times.

Alan Wake was pirated 1,141,000 times.

Prototype was pirated 810,000 times.

Dirt 2 was pirated 790,000 times.

On the Wii: 

Red Steel 2 was pirated 850,000 times.

Punch Out was pirated 950,000 times.

Kirby's Epic Yarn was pirated 880,000 times.

I know that all these people might not have bought the games anyway, but lets say 200,000 from each would have bought the game if the option of piracy wasn't around, then the sales life of Alan Wake, Red Steel 2, Dante's Inferno and Dirt 2 would be significantly better. 

This is also speculation, but a large part of the PS3 audience is probably made of tech enthusiast who know how to take advantage of piracy, while the 360 and Wii audience is far more casual in comparison, this may not be true, but I'm basing it from my own experiences in the real world and online. If it was true, then piracy could have a larger effect on the PS3, than it does on the 360 or the Wii.

Also, Modern Warfare 2 was pirated more than Black Ops, this is just to clarify an earlier point you made in this thread to another poster.

Just a couple of links for the numbers:

http://torrentfreak.com/call-of-duty-black-ops-most-pirated-game-of-2010-101228/

http://kotaku.com/5435876/the-most-pirated-games-of-2009