Piracy as viewed by Newell (Again)

[Kasz216]

Mohasus said:

Kasz216 said:

Slimebeast said:

He is wrong.

I save lots of money by downloading for free rather than using Steam. And piracy is about theft, not service.

So your saying, you aren't willing to pay ANYTHING for ANY PC game you could pirate.  Even if it was just say, 2 dollars?  IE:  You don't legally own a single PC game?

Cause, if you aren't saying that, you must not have read what he's said before.

You've also probbably never played a game like TF2, where the pirated version is unbelievably inferior to the normal version.

 

 I know a lot of people that won't buy any game if it is singleplayer only or if they aren't interested in the multiplayer aspect. It is like "why pay for it if I can get it for free?"

Multiplayer is another story, since you can't play with an illegal download. But if it is playable using hamachi, tunngle or anything similar, they'll pirate.

"TF2 for example, has almost no piracy anymore." That's because TF2 is F2P now.

It had almost zero piracy before then.   Back around when the first updates came out.  Meet the Medic I wanna say was first.

Once TF2 moved from being a game... to a service.  (Ex: We're giving you at least 9 class updates)   Piracy dropped off like mad.