Iron Lore did a pretty bad job at making it understood that "if you crack it it will crash!" - I learned that much later, so for the longest time I just ignored the game because I thought it's a crashy mess. Then again as you didn't know who on the Ironlore forums bought the game or not, how could you be sure that Ironlore…
These big companies for the most part don't care if you've pirated their software because they make their money off of companies who have to buy licenses. They actually like it when you pirate their stuff because it creates mindshare. I remember my friend telling me that Alias never changed how you cracked a version of…
He had been extremely anti-pirates earlier, but it managed to piss off alot of people, including his customers, so he wrote a good bunch of text to repair it, it was a good move. Most publishers and devlopers will try to stay away from that issue publicly and handle it more silently, DRM and fighting piracy openly is quite…
The company I work for makes children/movie liscenced games, and are targeted to a demographic that won't pirate because they're too young to know. The ESA claims that 82% of all game sales are 'E' for everyone. http://www.theesa.com/facts/index.asp Which is why games like High School Musical and Scooby Doo outsold 'God of…
Have you always been a narrow minded prick or did you go to school and get a masters? ha =P First off I buy my software or its bought for me, I don't pirate. I went from learning on free versions "Maya PLE & GMax" to a full copy of Maya that I purchased, then to a studio bought copy of 3dsmax. If you want to boil it down…
See, I respect that. A logical argument. Where I would have to respectfully disagree with you is in degree. Yes, the phenomena of piracy in general can be thought of as a crime because it is harmful. But that's the phenomena in general, not the individual act. If we were to sue a person who downloads an MP3 from the web…
Which is exactly what I said. Either you didn't read my post fully, or you missed that. And I'll add another layer on top of that, where if there was no legitimate way to pirate it, their paying playerbase would have been larger, and if they found ways to get some of those they lost to play (like downloadable content), it…
I enjoy people respecting software developers in regards to piracy when it's a small team or just one person, kind of like 3DCoat and formerly Sculptris before Pixologic acquired them/him. To see warez/pirating communities frowning upon people trying to crack programs like that sometimes puts a smile on my face. But…
I really dont know why companies like EA and Activision havent created a deniable off the books team to flood torrent sites with broken or trojaned versions of their games and the destroy all the pirates computers. The way to stop piracy in my eyes is either make it too difficult or too dangerous to download torrents, and…
They tried this in the early years, wasn't successful since only the stupid people downloaded the non-scene releases. I believe recently it was done with Batman, where you had to jump over a gap, you couldn't and you would just die. Somebody complained on their forums and got called out for it. This stuff isn't all bad, a…