Super Street Fighter IV Arcade and Street Fighter X Tekken coming to PC

[vlad321]

Hisiru said:

vlad321 said:

Did you even read the posts in the thread? The exact same crap was linked, and the response is the same this time. ALl this shows is that even developers don't know shit about the effects of piracy, and would rather use piracy as their scapegoat instead of admitting they amde a game no one wants to buy for $60 in the first place. Kind of like the bullshit the Wii sees. As I have already said, there are multiple studies which have shown that piracy does not cause lost sales, and the biggest cause of piracy is people not seeing the value that piblishers ask of them. In other words, shitty games aren't worth $60.

Link me to a study that shows that piracy leads to lost sales.

This is a joke right? You don't need a study to show that piracy leads to lost sales. Piracy on any system leads to lost sales (I don't care if the impact is big or not, there will be lost sales), because you can always force some people to buy your game if the system doesn't have piracy. When developers says "hey, piracy is hurting the sales of my PC game" they know what they are saying because any big company has people who knows if the game is being pirated or not and if the piracy is huge or not, so they have their own study, or do you think that Capcom doesn't have someone in charge of sales data?

You can try hard but you won't change the fact that a lot of developers said that piracy is hurting pc gaming sales.

I am sorry but I will take a developer's word over your word any time.

If you don't want to accept facts, it's okay. I know you want to defend the platform, but it's not possible, really. Even if you can't use "piracy" as the main problem, we can always say "only a few games/genres (like The Sims, FPS, strategy games etc) can succeed on PC, so it's not really a good platform to launch some games/genres", and then, why would it be rational to launch games like Top Spin 4 and UFC 2011 on PC?

It's not my word though, here are several links to studies which show what a load of crap that view of piracy is:

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=3988276