Mummelmann said:
How many companies went bankrupt because of PC pirates and not low sales and high costs on consoles this gen? You should look into it and be surprised (quite a few developers of phone games also died recently, hardly PC pirates' fault). This generation marked a movement where developers and publishers are moving farther and farther away from the PC as a gaming platform and they lose more and more money in doing so. Steam is also being attacked by many of them or boycotted all together, shunning the best digital alternative (let's be honest; MS and Apple are bitches to work with in development and distribution) on the PC market digs the grave ever deeper, reminds me of the music industry being so loathe to embrace digital distribution back in the day (some still are, and they're not doing so hot). They also release half-assed and gimped PC games for the sake of console gamers, effectively making their products useless and they have the audacity to whine about low sales. Crashing servers, lack of patches and horrible interfaces and menu solutions, limited visual and sound tech and base gameplay garnished with hollywoodesque stories to melt the brain and wrap the mediocrity or outright shit they publish in suitable paper. Mind you, I'm not defending pirating by any means, I buy 90% of my PC games on Steam and the rest in bargain bins at the store (are you opposed to bargain bins as well by the way? They net the publisher and/or developer little to no money). My point is; you need to wake up and start seeing nuances, a lot of people do. This is like blaming video games for violent behavior and murder; the story usually goes deeper. To those who don't like Gamestop and other, similar stores; I agree. Gamestop's philosophy and business model are unfair and cowardly and they are just as bad as pirates, almost worse seeing as how its all legal (for some reason). Why aren't developers on their ass as much as torrenters? I don't buy anything from Gamestop at any rate. |
They are on Gamestop's ass. Just the other way around. I mean there isn't a game now a days that doesn't have some big "Preorder bonus" you can get ONLY from Gamestop. Which is just... stupid because your bringing people right too the used games even if they are buying new ones.








