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Re: Sigh... it's one thing when people you don't know online promote game piracy...
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… -
Re: Sigh... it's one thing when people you don't know online promote game piracy...
He has a point. I think this discussion is getting twisted around a bit due to a few unclear arguments. Recap? Recap. Pirating isn't 'good' but it's hard to define just what sort of bad we should call it. Theft? Piracy? Intellectual Counterfeiting? None of them really fit. It's a vague crime, in that the initial harm is… -
Re: Sigh... it's one thing when people you don't know online promote game piracy...
I agree that most major companies use counter productive tactics that either don't work, or hinder the wrong people when attempting to thwart software piracy. That point is not in contention. Uber-companies often go to great lengths and only end up screwing their legitimate customers. We've seen it numerous times, and we… -
Re: Sigh... it's one thing when people you don't know online promote game piracy...
While I haven't read the 9 other pages, I have a little comment on the point that GarageBay makes with the following sentence: "This is why I have a had time blaming UbiSoft for using StarForce, this is why infinity ward gave PC gamers a giant motherucking middle finger and neutered their star product" My opinion is what… -
Re: Sigh... it's one thing when people you don't know online promote game piracy...
You might find it interesting to note that Bram Cohen, the creator of Bittorrent also worked on the original version of steam for Half-Life 2s release. So in some ways your actually right about that. Im also going to agree with you that selling (not copying though) used games is the right of whoever owns that particular… -
Re: Sigh... it's one thing when people you don't know online promote game piracy...
But I think there's a strawman being built here. If you look not at piracy as a whole, but at an individual doing the pirating for instance. You can't prove that the person would have bought the game had he not pirated. It's just as likely that he wouldn't have. And that he pirated the game didn't reduce that game's… -
Re: Sigh... it's one thing when people you don't know online promote game piracy...
Kids these days... Pirating is a real problem, and it bothers me to no end to think about how each year the new generation of gamers are developing this attitude of entitlement towards free software. It's a bad habit that gets reinforced with every free download. But no amount of idealism is going to change the world, stop… -
Re: Sigh... it's one thing when people you don't know online promote game piracy...
Ok, now I have to step in. Blaming the game industry for piracy is like telling a rape victim it was her fault for wearing slutty clothes in a bad part of town. Yes, traditional financing and distribution models are inefficient and outdated, especially since we derived them from other industries where a single product…
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