Bitmap Frogs said:
Close it my ass. You pretend to be all savvy and talking about things should be done leveraging the fact that the whole industry is subject to a massive stealing, everyday, through the net. This is akin as telling someone how he should do things just because you are clubbing him to death and using the fact that you are allowed to maul him as a justification for your arguments. Piracy hurts and it hurts the most the small guy. Big exes always will have a job managing content libraries and shareholders will always profit from that but it's the small guys who make a living out of content creation who get the worst deal. Piracy deincentivates investment into new content because profitability has gone way down. Your arguments crash because as time goes by people are dropping alltogether their spending on pirateable products and replacing it with stacks of fresh DVD's. To most people it's not about "hey, I used to buy 5 movies a year, now I'll still buy 5 and pirate 100". They eventually switch to 100% free-for-all p2p action. Your whole argument boils to "hey, people can get games for free! if the companies do what I tell them to do, they'll stop doing it". But that's bollocks. HD games cost that much because all it's left for the companies is milking the people that still buy games. Viva Piñata released at 40$, where are the massive sales? Banjo will debut at 40$, you think it'll sell to the torrent crowd? The 360 has a large library of discounted games, how come those aren't hitting the top of the lists? Here's a hint: because once you get used to paying 0.25c for a game, you aren't gonna pay 10$. The music industry has been dealing with this ever since the 90's. And sure, iTunes works well - but it's nowhere near making up for the differences in revenue from before the p2p days. And frankly, tell me since when stealing something you can't afford is kosher. Everyone wants a porsche or a ferrari, how come there aren't people assaulting the vendors? because jacking a car gets you in the jail. This just about consecuence-free stealing - that's the only reason this thing got big. Everything else is just chatter. The day someone breaks into your house and get your flat tv stolen I hope the thief later phones you to tell you how it was his right to steal your TV because he can't buy one. |
All these people could feasibly work anywhere they choose. They choose to work in a situation where people can and will take their product without retribution. So I don't have sympathy for them. They can be a starving artists all they choose.
Nintendo is making more profit per employee than any company in history period. If they do wanna continue this dream then they may wanna aim at making software for the people that will buy it, because enough obviously exist otherwise even Nintendo wouldn't be where it is today(and I believe that both of thier systems suffer from pirating as well). Otherwise all I hear is "We wanna continue to do what we want to do reguardless of realistic expectations and we have a right to do so". Markets change, economies change, if developers refuse to change along with I don't really care if they go the way of the dodo.
I wanted to do a lot of things with my life. I realised that many of those things would not support me insteading of being pretentious and claiming what I did and didn't deserve or what was right or wrong I chose to do something that will.