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Re: Your opinion on Game piracy...
This pretty much. There is no such thing as an unpirateable product, and that includes multiplayer games with dedicated servers whose source code has never been released (Tribes: Ascend and World of Warcraft both have pirate servers as an example). You need to learn to work assuming piracy is going to happen, and all the… -
Re: Your opinion on Game piracy...
This topic comes up often here. As Polycount grows and we see new members, this is just one of those topics that will be asked enough. Fair enough. So please, keep it as civil as possible. We'll shut this thread down without warning if that doesn't happen. TL;DR on the post below: I offer an anecdote about myself and when… -
Re: Your opinion on Game piracy...
Not quite... If the company doesnt make enough money, like say 80% of people playing the games they made are pirated, then I can promise you that you will be out of a job, and will stop receiving that fixed salary of yours. When you buy a game new, you are directly supporting your fellow artists / other devs. I personally… -
Re: Your opinion on Game piracy...
People are really impatient these days, a recently announced game comes out in Europe 3 days after the US release. Plenty of commenters raged about that and said they would either pirate it or refuse to buy it because of the tiny delay. -
Re: Your opinion on Game piracy...
Ah I see Seems like that isn't working out very well for the rest of the civilized world, I couldn't find many games that were released later in the US :U Although Bravely Defaults two month crawl to US shores from Europe comes to mind :( -
Re: Your opinion on Game piracy...
I think that fair pricing is one of the best ways to curb piracy. I believe that new games, if priced at $40, would sell more copies and make more money in the long run. Steam spearheads this effort in some ways, but the change must also come from publishers. Piracy isn't right, but it's going to happen... instead of… -
Re: Your opinion on Game piracy...
No, it usually releases on a Friday, along with the rest of the civilized world. At some point in time, retailers in the USA shifted to insisting that they get media releases (DVDs and books included) for Tuesdays - the idea being that if a product sells well, it's still possible to order more stock before the weekend.… -
Re: Your opinion on Game piracy...
Ships yes. When it arrives is a different story, if it takes a couple extra days to get product distributed in Australia/EU it would make sense that there would be a delay. Anyway maybe I'm wrong, I looked up some release dates after Justin posted and this is what I found: (grouped these by similar days for visibility)…
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