If You Want To Fight Piracy, Make Better Games - Gabe Newell, Also Ubisoft are evil "4 da hitz"

[Mr Puggsly]

zarx said:

Mr Puggsly said:

RolStoppable said:

Lostplanet22 said:
People are pirating like every game and the best selling games are really that great?

Valve demographics just exist out a lot of pirates who thx to his sweet talk will get brainwashed even more...

It is sickening how many times I read comments as 'Fuck company X for that reason they deserve that their game get pirated and with the money I saved I bought nice hatq/clothing or whatever for Team Fortress 2 >_>!

Yeah Valve exist out some great minds, they only don't make some of the greatest games but they know how to win gamers to their side and rip them off before other game devs can.

This is a joke, right? It has to be.

It's no coincidence that the companies who are the most outspoken ones against piracy and the used games market are the same who struggle to make games that people want to buy and keep. Meanwhile, you don't hear similar complaints from the companies who are capable of providing great products.

Bullshit, Ubisoft, EA, and Capcom complain but they all provide quality PC games.

You don't hear much from Activision and Blizzard but they're clearly concerned about piracy as well. Activision actually hunts down pirates. Diablo 3 will require DRM even for offline play.

Some developers simply can't rely on the PC a lone anymore and focus on consoles.

So Ubisoft with draconian DRM, EA with the best selling PC series in history plus the only major publisher leading major game development on PC (proving that PC slaes are important to them despite piracy) and Capcom with sporadic low quality ports are allowed to complain but Gabe who suffers from piracy as much as anyone can't because he points out it's not as big an issue as other people say is a duche, right...

I personally don't find DRM that requires you to be online to be an issue. If consumers don't like it, they don't have to play the game period. it doesn't justify piracy. Mass piracy is something all publishers of PC games have to deal with, not just EA.

If Valve didn't have Steam and relied solely on the profit of their games, I assure you Valve would be more concerned with piracy.