SvennoJ said:
RenCutypoison said:
That's a hoax. There is no loss for the industry, only a potential gain. People don't pirate games they want to buy. And the biggest pirates are usually the ones with the biggest collection of retail titles (Sometimes even legit digital titles, even if doesn't make sense to me).
That's a "potential gain" because publishers believe that with more DRMs, pirates will buy their games. What really happens is that pirates wouldn't pay for these games anyway, so won't buy it, and part of the legit audience will not buy the game because of extensive DRM preventing them from playing how they want.
Edit : And there is a world between homebrews and commercial games. It took months for the psp to get homebrews, way more for commercial games if i remember correctly. Homebrews are cool.
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So because of pirates, we get to deal with more crappy DRM, it does effect legit gamers. Glad you agree.
I've been on both sides, pirate among pirates as a teenager. Sorry none of us had a big collection of retail games. Lots of blank floppies though to copy more and more games.
As a developer I had to deal with our software appearing for free on the internet and having to work with annoying drm and data encryption because of that. Worst was the cheap chinese knock off though, couldn't do anything about that.
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I read a few good articles on gamasutra about chinese clones, that just seem horrible.
But piracy has change a lot since ps1 era you know. With the development of the internet people are more aware of the reality of the gaming industry, closer to their favourite developpers. Now there are steam sales and humble bundle for low bank accounts, and free to play games have learned us that, even if you can play a game for free, there is no shame in donating for the devs. The value of collecting has gone up with digital too, and the shame surrounding video game is disappearing, it's not a kids hobby now; so even pirates want to have their favourite games on their shelves.
DRMs must be the worst on devs side tough. It's more work, and noone can actually be sure you gain anything with them =/ In the end every games end up cracked (Even Simcity 5 lately)
