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Forums - PC - Why Piracy si so high (Mass Effect 2)

vlad321 on 22 January 2010
Huya said:
Since when are music and games the same thing?

Since they are digital media targetting the same audience?



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HD vs Wii, PC vs HD: http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=93374

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yog-sothot on 22 January 2010

So Mass Effect 2 for the PC is already out and up for download.

-1 week earlier

-No SecuROM crap

-No GFWL crap

-No other DRM crap

-Easy as hell installation (compared to GFWL and all that)

--------------------

all this is the sad thruth

but another truth even sadder is that even without that, people would still pirate the game because most pirates are cheap jackasses



daggy on 22 January 2010
Twistedpixel said:
Why Piracy is so high? Because its free vs actually having to pay the producers. If PC games sales were higher it would justify a lot more development and fewer cheap ports when they do come across.

considering that there are far more games being developed on PC than in all consoles combined, PC will survive easily.



vlad321 on 22 January 2010
The Ghost of RubangB said:
I know all about SecuROM, but what's this GFWL stuff?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Games_for_Windows_%E2%80%93_Live

 

If you google around you will find tons of problems with it. It is, for a lack of better word, laughable.



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HD vs Wii, PC vs HD: http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=93374

Why Regenerating Health is a crap game mechanic: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=3986420

gamrReview's broken review scores: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=4170835

 

Slimebeast on 22 January 2010

vlad what damage securom does?



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vlad321 on 22 January 2010
Slimebeast said:
vlad what damage securom does?

http://uoem.com/forums/showthread.php?13510-SecuROM-Causes-These-Problems

Also unisntalling it is impossible for anyone who doesn't have any knowhow.



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HD vs Wii, PC vs HD: http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=93374

Why Regenerating Health is a crap game mechanic: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=3986420

gamrReview's broken review scores: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=4170835

 

dahuman on 22 January 2010

I have the deluxe edition pre-ordered on steam personally, I would have pirated if I had no money though.



NiKKoM on 22 January 2010

That's why I pirate music...

- I don't want to go to the record store
- Search for the CD
- Talk to the 16-year old Jonas Brothers loving cashier
- Get a knife or sissor
- Get the plastic wrapper of the CD
- Open the case
- Put the CD into my CD-player
- Switching CD's when I want to listen to other CD's
- Converting the CD to play it on my iPod

thats why I pirate music! Gaaaarrrwww!!



 

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Twistedpixel on 22 January 2010
vlad321 said:
Twistedpixel said:
Why Piracy is so high? Because its free vs actually having to pay the producers. If PC games sales were higher it would justify a lot more development and fewer cheap ports when they do come across.

Year after year it has been proven that music pirates buy tons more music than do people who don't pirate music. I have a very strong hunch it's the same with video game piracy.

Music costs $1.99 a track now compared to $60 for a game, and music has always been given away free on the radio so there isn't the same desire to pirate. Anyone who I know that used to pirate with the PS2 who now owns a PS3 doesn't pirate anymore.

 



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Kasz216 on 22 January 2010
vlad321 said:
hahadumb said:
If by "better in every respect" you mean "exactly the same product minus a couple of copy protection schemes amounting to such a minor annoyance that anyone who uses them as an excuse to pirate software immediately comes across as not just cheap but intellectually bankrupt and void of a moral compass" then yes.

No i mean "anyone who knows anything about computers will realize that SecuROM is a serious breach and GFWL is a huge thorn in people's lives" then yeah, it is better in every way.

What does SecuRom do anyway?   I know i'd instal a pirated copy with Starforce protection over a legal copy anyday. (Though I'd buy the legal copy then download the pirated version.)


Starforce breaks CD drives.