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Khuutra on 07 December 2008
Gnizmo said:
Given how old GTA is some of those might just be people re-getting the game after their copy got lost/broken. Still pretty sad state of affairs overalll. The biggest point made is that you can't force people to buy the game through draconian DRM. Hopefully this inspires someone to come up with a better way to combat privacy.

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Gnizmo on 07 December 2008

Never said or thought it was easy. I am just pointing out it is necessary.



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Zucas on 07 December 2008

Disturbing



NJ5 on 07 December 2008
twesterm said:
Barozi said:
twesterm said:
And people say piracy doesn't affect anything. Even the 10 spot is easily the different between a game that makes money and a game that doesn't.

Assumed that every single of those downloader would buy the game (which is in over 50% not the case)

 

Even if they weren't going to buy the game (which is a bullshit excuse) they are still enabling others so it still hurts the developers just as bad.

From a financial perspective (since you mentioned money), there's zero difference between downloading a game illegally and not buying it.

As for the "enabling others" that's scraping the bottom of the barrel. There are tons of ways to get illegal games which don't involve P2P, and you don't need many people in a torrent to download files pretty fast.

Morally wrong yeah, but the financial impact is not really determined AFAIK.

 



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Neos on 07 December 2008

i downloaded spore, crysis and fallout 3 as well. Spore is quite bad and wouldn't have bought it anyway(just wanted to know what it was about). With crysis i wanted to test if it could run on my pc and for fallout 3 i downloaded it for my brother who is poor =P

Yes these are excuses



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Hephaestos on 08 December 2008

these numbers seem low to me....

I mean if the top ten goes to 400k, then game piracy is really not that rampant considering that it's probably the same people getting a copy of each of these.... assuming a 50% attach rate for the much buzzed spore, that would put the game pirate population at 3-4 million worldwide? so what... 2% of the gaming PC population? (yeah cause one time pirates of spore apear in the numbers)

Similarly, Handhelds are easy to pirate. So based on a 100M handheld population, not one game has over 500K.... that is lower than 1% of the population that pirates if you assume pirate would get at least a 50% attach rate on high profile games...



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Barozi on 08 December 2008
Neos said:
i downloaded spore, crysis and fallout 3 as well. Spore is quite bad and wouldn't have bought it anyway(just wanted to know what it was about). With crysis i wanted to test if it could run on my pc and for fallout 3 i downloaded it for my brother who is poor =P

Yes these are excuses

lol isn't he able to sell some dope ? (sry I couldn't resist^^)



Strategyking92 on 08 December 2008

Spore deserves it though, with all of DRM bullcrap, not to mention the game is just a big letdown. And also, quite boring.



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Senlis on 08 December 2008

Stardock themselves said that you cannot take the number of people who pirated a game and call them lost customers. Stardock's games have no DRM, and they made an impressive profit on them.
http://pc.ign.com/articles/858/858653p1.html




 

Soleron on 08 December 2008

I see Nintendo does not feature on that list, despite the Wii being popular and hyped. Targeting the "expanded market" does that - people in it don't know enough about technology to acquire it for free illegally.