Mark Rein: Piracy is a problem, but Steam is great.

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Onyxmeth said:

naznatips said:

Onyxmeth said:

I'm sorry, I was wrong. I looked back a few pages for the article and it was Iron Lore, the makers of Titan Quest that closed down. That article specifically talked about piracy's effect on them and their closing.

Titan Quest didn't sell because it was a mediocre Diablo 2 clone. Not because of piracy. Most people didn't even know it existed.

I wasn't taking a personal stance on Titan Quest's quality, I was referring to this topic:

http://vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=19230

It does go into how piracy played a large effect in Ion Lore's closing.

 

Well, Titan Quest did sell ok but not the expansion, and Dawn of War: Soulstorm is selling great. The problem is even if they had put an efficient anti-piracy protection that would make the game unpirated (in dreamland), the sales would barely be increased since TQ isn't a big game, and pirates would just rather look for other games to download illegally than buy TQ.