One thing publishers can't keep doing is punishing the people who actually buy the game with DRM, firstly because people pirating the game can get around it anyway and secondly because it's fucking frustrating. It's like when I buy a new BluRay movie I have to sit through 10 minutes of anti-piracy bullshit before I can…
I've seen this happen, several times even. Back around 2004 I knew someone that pirated Naruto2 (the import fighting game) for Gamecube using the PSO exploit. Both him and many of the people he played against eventually ended up buying it and its sequels. Many 'freeloader' discs for playing imports were bought too. The…
The funny thing about that is that I said, repeatedly, maybe once a page even, that I'm against piracy, and that it's very harmful. People just seem to ignore that part of it. But the problems that it causes, are the fault of the industry, not of the pirates. Games appearing on file-sharing sites before they're released…
You're making it sound as if I'm arguing just to be a jerk. I'm not. I actually believe what I'm saying, and I believe it's the anti-piracy people who are doing the wrong thing by supporting, maybe without realizing it, a corrupt corporate culture. This is more than semantics. It's about the false belief that "pirates" are…
You go too far yourself though when you blame your current predicament because of pirating. Not because of the recession and spending in general. You may accept all these are a factor. However, you only acknowledged that in your reply as the cause. Which is somewhat dishonest.
This was the best way for him to handle it PR-wise, note that he still never said it was okay for people to do it, and also that his particular game is very online centric and is structured around a verification system. This pretty much made up my mind on how the majority of pirates think, no motive, no honor, no gray…
Its not the end of the world thought is it? I dont think pirates care about the company's its just the economics, they buy what they can afford, and they steal what they cannot. There's no justification for it people should not do it, but they do and will do it as long as they can. Its a problem with the technology that it…
Wasn't Titan Quest also plagued by a bad rep entirely caused by piracy? IIRC the pirates hadn't fully cracked Titan Quest's DRM so apparently the cracked version of game crashed very often and was fairly unplayable. The pirates complained so much that reputation of being buggy tainted the actual retail version. I don't…
True, there is that scenario, but like I said earlier in the thread, Resale outlets (such as Gamestop) should be required to hold traded in titles the same as pawn shops for a pre-determined amount of time deemed by local laws. If theirs anything that digital distribution's taught us, whether it be legal or pirate, is that…
Likewise, the same tactic was used for Titan Quest where cracking the game would break the quests, causing the game to crash. Result? Pirates have spread the bad word and many would-be buyers avoided the game expecting a bugfest. Whatever you do to counter pirates don't try to harm them or they will bite you back. If you…