People in Australia pirate because of the insanely high prices we are forced to pay here. In short, games are double the price of the games of that of the US. The dollar has changed now dramatically, but back when the AU dollar was at almost 90 USD, games here in most stores remained around $90-120 RRP. Compared with games…
Ya I've never got to use a dongle before, would be cool if they brought them back. They could make them into shapes of like pirate ships or something, like "in your face pirate bay!".. or they should make them into collector shapes and stuff, like characters or enemies from the game... then pack them into the game…
I have no doubt piracy affects the game industry, you only have to look at the music and film industry to see that it does. But there are the people who pirate a game just to play it before release, even though they already have a store copy pre-ordered. As to how many that is, who knows? There isn't going to be any way to…
I dont really agree with this line of attack, it kinda comes off like Lars Ulrich of Metallica from the napster days.... stopping all peer to peer is a little delusional... I agree that pirating games is a shit business but there must be a way to fight it more directly. a way to combat pirates in much the same way they…
heh 14 years old? all years old i'd say... People thinks that if a game is freely distributed online, if someone pays for it, then, they are idiots. At the end... a huge majority ends downloading pirated games because they don't want to enter the idiots group (in Spain the money they save is wasted in alcohol). This is…
I'm with east. Its as simple as this: People who download and play pirated games will continue to do so no matter what precautions are taken. People who buy games will only continue to do so when the content is worth the cost. In other words, companies that spend more than half thier resources on stopping people pirating…
If they can solve Y2K they can do anything!!! @neox; I was talking about the ones with proprietary no-hack technology. @East, its no wonder you are so lax with game pirating, it sounds like you have some heavier past-times on the go... lol.
Not meaning any disrespect, blaizer, but that castle is probably a small one made out of sand, and would wash away at tide. I used to be a big pirate back in the day, and from my own experience I would have bought maybe 5 out of 100 games that I pirated. Copying them stemmed from curiosity about the games and wanting to…
An actual problem is that not all companies can invest on what you call "invention" Microneezia. Look at spore, or all those games with activations... invention? they got cracked no matter how much they invested in "invention" :D It's like a vicious circle ^^, ppl who learned with pirated programs get pirated their…
Haha, spot on. I agree it's stealing and wrong and everything, and I don't do it myself, and I understand that there are douchebags out there. But. Gearbox is still making more money than me, so they can stop whineing. Haha, nah, I kid. Burn the fucking pirates I say.