Polycount + Piracy
Just a small note to let everyone know we've updated our Rules post in the Forum to reflect our stance on Piracy discussions here at Polycount.
Piracy is one of those elephants in the room we face daily in our industry. And as such, we understand your want or need to discuss it amongst your peers. However, both out of respect for our industry & jobs, and to cover our own asses, we may not allow such threads to be active within the Polycount Forum.
However, Polycount.com will not support the 'for' argument of Piracy, and since there's two sides to this coin in every discussion, we may close threads from here on out about Piracy within videogames. It's a topic that's come up a hundred times already in the past, so for now please search our Forum's history to see previous discussions. Depending on where the discussion goes, we will keep the threads active but typically it becomes a 'for' or 'against' discussion, which we will not support.
We absolutely hate barring discussion topics as we feel everyone has a right to discuss what they like when it comes to videogames and videogame art but we cannot let Polycount be a place for such discussions to take place. Please keep this in mind the next time you have the urge to bring up Piracy within the Polycount Forum.
Our update rule on Piracy states:
Polycount does not condone piracy nor do we allow links to pirated games or software. We understand the piracy discussion, however Polycount will not be used as a platform for speaking out in favor of piracy, thus threads centering around piracy may be removed/deleted.
Thank you!
-Adam & the Polycount Crew
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Logged in as dineyin.
Recent bout of piracy threads, active one right now was caused by notch's stance on piracy.
To sum up;
Nothing is ever crystal clear as both have key points, which are repeated and repeated and yes dear repeated between people arguing while at the same time poking holes in the others.
So just remember, even your most thought out argument or statement can and will be ignored.
Though I feel that there is room for discussion on such topics, I'm not sure what the point is of openly advocating piracy on a board populated by game artists. (and by extension, game developers) Its like attempting to speak passionately in favor of gun control at an NRA meeting.
Thinking about this some more, I really hope piracy isn't a topic that shall never be named, as some polycount members has spoken eloquently on precisely why piracy is a problem from a first or second hand perspective in non piracy threads.
We hope this will also help to curb these massive threads we've been having, that add little positive to the polycount community on the whole.
couldn't this just be a gameart forum instead of a "piracy is bad" gameart forum? why take that stand? why not let it be just another opinion. after all, how i feel games should be distributed, and how or if people should pay for my (and others) games doesn't affect the art i create.
The opperators of the forums have the right to enforce what ever rules they like, Its their forum and they can do what they like with it. We're just freeloaders, taking advantage of a very generous gift.
I fully support this stance, I always thought it was retarded being openly pro-piracy on a damned board for videogame developers.
It's like talking about the "pros" of cancer in a hospital for children with cancer
and yeah off course polycount crew can do as they like, it's their forum, but wouldn't you all be suprised if they suddenly forbid threads about, say, bananas? they can do it, obsiously, but why is there a need to? i can se that, yeah, piracy is more related to this forums than bananas but isn't this a GAME ART forum and not some lobby group for the video game industry?
which we do, we just don't like paying for the games that it's in.