pirating games is more equivalent to sneaking into a movie theater without paying, or borrowing a movie or a game to a friend, than taking someone's cash. 70% rate of pirating sounds awfully much, but thinking about it in real life terms, its equivalent to buying a movie, and then borrowing it to 2 of your friends. thats a…
I didn't read the thread, are we patting the OP on the back for writing a 500 word post about how piracy is bad before we all go back to using our pirated production software? http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=62617&highlight=piracy ..yeah fuck you game pirates how ~dare~ you
I used to pirate games a couple of years ago (although I didn't really end up playing them much), but came around when I found out about the crazyness that is Steam sales. I mean... I can spend 5,- on a game anytime, if it's worth playing it's probably worth my 5,-. So now I play all sorts of old games and new games that…
downloadable content is piratable, see mass effect, dragon age etc. heck, even the guys iphone app itself is considdered downloadable content with quite rigorous DRM in place. what would you propose they do differently, or better, next time around? what magical device would you put in place to stop people pirating his next…
I stopped pirated games/music when I turned 18 (and also stopped downloading/buying music from any label that wasn't independent) But yeah, now, I barely spend any money on new releases, and mostly wait for sales on steam or indy games. Pirating is easy and can almost become a habit (oh I wanted to try that game, maybe I…
Here is a similar case where people pirated something despite the fact that the purchaser was given the choice of how much they should pay for it... http://blog.wolfire.com/2010/05/Saving-a-penny----pirating-the-Humble-Indie-Bundle Lack of access to a credit card in order to purchase online seemed to be a commonly stated…
Bigjohn: This is entertainment! It's not a product that someone's life depends on, you can live without it! It's an unnecessary service that simply enriches life for recreational purposes. There is no justification for pirating games, money or not. Consumers can live without it. I do agree that we could market selling…
I'm pretty sure this has been mentioned but this is my take on piracy. Companies claim they lose X amount of dollars on piracy but it's a mythical number that can't be proved because just because you pirated software doesn't mean if you could NOT you would have bought it. I pirated a lot of crap when I was kid. I'm talking…
Or maybe people just loves to rape slutty or not. I always ponder what would've happened to these companies making really awesome games that just didn't get the advertisement budget they deserved and eventually had to shut down, and if every guy who never bought their game but still enjoyed the heck out of it would have…
You know I never really had a problem with pirating and never really cared about it at all until I shipped my first game. A leaked copy of the game was pouring out on to the p2p a week before release. Ultimately the game never really did very well but I had to ask my self how well it would have done if it was never pirated…