Right, so why bother making a fuss over it? You can't beat it and every time the media brings it up, more people hear about it and become curious. The pirates should stop trying to justify it, the Devs should treat their paying customers better, and the media should stop covering it as they're giving it more exposure.
You're not helping the situation by taking that attitude. I can tell you right now, that I have no intention of taking you seriously after that remark. See how that works? When you come in with an attitude like that, the people you're trying to persuade stop listening.
It's not like these big labels win any money from suing people, they're just doing it as a scare tactic, since it's pretty fruitless to try to go after the small people. Fear of consequence is the only thing stopping most casual piracy between this reality and one where piracy would be legalized.
Having worked for a company that was compromised by game piracy, my feelings are pretty much this: If developers don't make money on a game to make more games, they stop making games. Pirate all you want, but don't complain when all you have left are console games that all play the same, take no risks, and are developed by…
its harder on consoles the console has to be modded (warranty is gone) risk damaging/shortening its life span the console by modding it still need a pc to burn/download/load games on the device firmware/update issues not that any of that actually stop some :/ but i do know some that rather not mod their stuff for one or…
You will never convince a person who steals games to stop, so you guys are really talking to a wall at this point. All you can do is come up with easy ways to deliver content to the consumer like Steam and Apple AppStore. Pirates will continue to pirate, they dont give a fuck about you or your jobs. I've worked with people…
No. Stop! This a terrible, terrible assumption. The biggest offenders are always the LAST ones to feel the pinch. You aren't going to "Bring Down" the "Man" by pirating games. The very first people who are going to get cut and/or laid-off from these developments are smaller developers. And that is indeed exactly what has…
I really have an issue with the restrictive nature of consoles. I understand their apprehension with those that infringe on their rights, but in their zeal to stop those people, they step all over the rights of their paying customers. Copyright grants the consumer certain rights of use. Rights such as personal archival…
Lets say in a hypothetical future where information were to become free, and there were no such thing as IP laws any-more, could you even legally sell your game?, since you'd be lying if you were telling people that was the only way to get your game, and you couldn't stop people from posting "don't pay for the game, get it…