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Mr Puggsly on 02 April 2011
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vlad321 said:
Mr Puggsly said:
vlad321 said:
Slimebeast said:
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What a bullshit article, its piracy that's hurting PC gaming. PC isn't the main focus of developers because it generates significantly less profits than consoles.

Developers could definitely raise the bar by taking advantage of modern PC gaming technology. But what's the point? The masses are just going to steal it.

Yeah, it's as simple as that.


And the consoles have the used game market, which hurts the developers more than any piracy. Even if you assume piracy is as bad (which is a luaghabley wrong assumption in itself), the used game market is worse.

Hmmm... bullshit.

The Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, and DS deal with the used sales, rentals, and piracy. Yet they still do a significantly better job at selling games than the PC.

Just take a look at all the PC game sales we see on every digital distribution site. That's developers trying collect whatever money they can from the PC gaming market thanks rampant piracy. There are also endless free games to play on PC and that's huge competition for games being sold.


They don't deal with any of those, especially used sales. Used sales are as damaging to the developer as piracy. The reason PC games don't sell much in recent times is the exact topic of this thread. Games have been sucking hard. Unlike consoles, I can play games from before this generation so I don't have to buy the crap from this one, therefore I buy less.

You say used sales are as damaging as piracy with no argument. Your statment has no ground.

One key thing to remember about used games on the market is they were sold and the publishers/developers made a profit for that sale at one time. A pirated game was never sold and no profit was ever made. Hence, piracy is more damaging and too many PC gamers are used to their games being free.

Your argument about games sucking this generation is an opinion and irrelevant. Regardless how you feel about them, many PC gamers are still playing them but too many are stealing. That's hurting the PC gaming industry more so than consoles ever could.



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