Why do some people and companies act like piracy is a new concern?

Hasn't it been going on for ages now in very large numbers. PC games still sell surprisingly strong, and digital is getting larger too. I think they may just act like that because they try to compare PC game sales with console sales. It is not as simple as that. Lower Costs and less royalties, the rising digital market, long-run sales, and the decreasing price of gaming grade computer parts, among other things, have to be considered on the PC publishing side.

Hasn't it been going on for ages now in very large numbers. PC games still sell surprisingly strong, and digital is getting larger too. I think they may just act like that because they try to compare PC game sales with console sales. It is not as simple as that. Lower Costs and less royalties, the rising digital market, long-run sales, and the decreasing price of gaming grade computer parts, among other things, have to be considered on the PC publishing side.

harjyotbanwait

I posted this in the other thread so if youve read it my appologies... but Im gonna post it here too.

If you owned a store and people came in and started stealing all your crap you would put some type of security in. More than likely it wouldnt work all that well, a minor deterent, but you would still do it. After you installed your security and people said, "well we are not going to shop here anymore." you would say...??? Im guessing too bad so sad. I am not saying you dont by games with DRM, but that argument is the same for those who are against DRM or any other type of game security.

Right now the game companies are trying to find a simple minor "intrusive" way to combat piracy and nothing has worked thus far. Sadly, the only way they are going to be able to stop it is lobbying for ridiculous penalties if you get caught.. Im talking prison time for people who pirate along with ridiculous fines. Additionally, they need to have a system similiar to what Autodesk has for their software. With the invention of .Net software it would be really easy to require and internet connection to validate the game, and yes that would solve most of the piracy problems. Try and find a copy of Autocad 2007-2010 and being able to ever plug your computer into the internet again... I dare you. Actually don't, cause people who do their machines get JACKED.

Anyways, my whole point is that the DRM that we know today is going away to something completely different. Its just that no one wants to be the first to pull the trigger for fear of a "boycott". But its getting to the point now where thy pretty much have to... HAVE TO. For people that dont understand how bad piracy has gotten... 4.1 million copies of MW 2 were pirated. 4.1 MILLION. Pirates are screwing it up for all of us... and I hate you for it. Get a job and pay for it.

Also, with youre comment on lowering prices there are two things wront with that:

1. The depreciation of the dollar (Thanks OBAMA, KEEP PRINTING MONEY AND RAPING OUR FUTURE!!) would hurt them even more.

2. Free is still better than paying.

Simply to hide theirselfs behind the "GREEDY WALL" ( call me activisions MW2 anyone ) and spicy prices.

Im not saying im not against piracy but to be THAT greedy over games that yoiu shouldnt ( DIABLO 3 pay to play?!!! come on think it over Blizzard... )

Diablo 3 is not pay to play... Whoever told you that need to stop using the white dust...

They said that some battle net features will require that you pay (like moving character over realms or select a new name) and so on.

checklist to reduce piracy:

1.have an attractive package. have some collectibles (posters etc..) to force consumers purchase the item. if the package sucks no need to add it in your collection.

2. create high quality games. dark void was released. the game was looking promising and then reviews kill it. this is an example because people like to try games but do not affort to buy them if they suck. so what they do is just simply download them.

3. have strong multiplayer components. so people can purchase the games to play online with an original cd key.

4. dont rush and deliver poor games. this is for movie tie in games which all suck. ALL KNOWS THAT REPETITION = BAD GAME. take your time to design games because when reviews kill a game, also they kill the possibility of purchasing the game.

5. Availability. i am suprised to hear that some really good games are not available to some countries. Are you people serious? its like saying to your customers download the game. Recently i heard rumors that blazblue for pc will be released only in france which is the worst move ever. OMG!! Think about what you are doing.

6. Have reasonable prices according to the game and if its really worth it. example is rogue warrior. the game should be $5 not for example $60.you want to charge more then WORK on your games.

7. have games that can be played easily on pc's. When crysis released everyone was warried about game requirements instead of Cod4 was a good looking game and had low requirements. what is going on here. warhead was running more smooth than the original.

8. have patches to fix broken stuff and glitches on the games. some companies dont even bother. so why purchasing their product when there is 0 service.

9. THINK OF THE CONSUMERS NEEDS NOT THEIR POCKETS. SOME GAMES ARE UNACCEPTABLE FOR RELEASING IN 2010. So people are scaredto purchase

10.Have demos available. trying the game might influence purchase.

You can add onmy list if you want

Peace out.

They can't expect people to not pirate games when it's so easy to do and when that game costs AUD120.

Piracy has always been there. It's just some people like to use it as an excuse for not getting enough sales.

checklist to reduce piracy:

1.have an attractive package. have some collectibles (posters etc..) to force consumers purchase the item. if the package sucks no need to add it in your collection.

2. create high quality games. dark void was released. the game was looking promising and then reviews kill it. this is an example because people like to try games but do not affort to buy them if they suck. so what they do is just simply download them.

3. have strong multiplayer components. so people can purchase the games to play online with an original cd key.

4. dont rush and deliver poor games. this is for movie tie in games which all suck. ALL KNOWS THAT REPETITION = BAD GAME. take your time to design games because when reviews kill a game, also they kill the possibility of purchasing the game.

5. Availability. i am suprised to hear that some really good games are not available to some countries. Are you people serious? its like saying to your customers download the game. Recently i heard rumors that blazblue for pc will be released only in france which is the worst move ever. OMG!! Think about what you are doing.

6. Have reasonable prices according to the game and if its really worth it. example is rogue warrior. the game should be $5 not for example $60.you want to charge more then WORK on your games.

7. have games that can be played easily on pc's. When crysis released everyone was warried about game requirements instead of Cod4 was a good looking game and had low requirements. what is going on here. warhead was running more smooth than the original.

8. have patches to fix broken stuff and glitches on the games. some companies dont even bother. so why purchasing their product when there is 0 service.

9. THINK OF THE CONSUMERS NEEDS NOT THEIR POCKETS. SOME GAMES ARE UNACCEPTABLE FOR RELEASING IN 2010. So people are scaredto purchase

10.Have demos available. trying the game might influence purchase.

You can add onmy list if you want

Peace out.

mariokata

while all these are true, 3 and 5 are debatable.

Portal, half life series and fallout series are fun because of its singleplayer value.

and about the availablity, I read article yesterday that Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez thinks PS3 is a poison. and I remember reading articles few months back that Austraila banned some games... Availablity has more to do with that region rather than the developers/publishers.

What the poster above said is 100% true, well except the fact that good games get pirated as well. Ok so maybe it's not true at all. And if it were true then pirates are the most stupid people on earth as they are stealing crap? Is that why they do it, because they want crap? ok then that explains it.

piracy is more of a concern now because now that games have a larger audience than lets say 10 years ago (every year COD, halo or gears breaks a new record) and it hurts the smaller companies such as the cryostasis dudes or companies like croteam, crytek, etc. where they dont have as huge a fanbase as blizzard, valve, bungie, activision, etc. the small companies have to make as many sales as they can because the dev teams are larger therefore making it more expensive. also piracy is more rampant because of the tough economic times and the sudden influx of really **** games like COD, halo, gears, uncharted. why buy MW2 for 60 bucks when you can have it for free on pc especially when the game is as short and dull as it is. i dont endorse piracy, but i can see where people come from. piracy of games from smaller companies i dont like though because it affects them more than a company like activision or blizzard

[QUOTE="mariokata"]

checklist to reduce piracy:

1.have an attractive package. have some collectibles (posters etc..) to force consumers purchase the item. if the package sucks no need to add it in your collection.

2. create high quality games. dark void was released. the game was looking promising and then reviews kill it. this is an example because people like to try games but do not affort to buy them if they suck. so what they do is just simply download them.

3. have strong multiplayer components. so people can purchase the games to play online with an original cd key.

4. dont rush and deliver poor games. this is for movie tie in games which all suck. ALL KNOWS THAT REPETITION = BAD GAME. take your time to design games because when reviews kill a game, also they kill the possibility of purchasing the game.

5. Availability. i am suprised to hear that some really good games are not available to some countries. Are you people serious? its like saying to your customers download the game. Recently i heard rumors that blazblue for pc will be released only in france which is the worst move ever. OMG!! Think about what you are doing.

6. Have reasonable prices according to the game and if its really worth it. example is rogue warrior. the game should be $5 not for example $60.you want to charge more then WORK on your games.

7. have games that can be played easily on pc's. When crysis released everyone was warried about game requirements instead of Cod4 was a good looking game and had low requirements. what is going on here. warhead was running more smooth than the original.

8. have patches to fix broken stuff and glitches on the games. some companies dont even bother. so why purchasing their product when there is 0 service.

9. THINK OF THE CONSUMERS NEEDS NOT THEIR POCKETS. SOME GAMES ARE UNACCEPTABLE FOR RELEASING IN 2010. So people are scaredto purchase

10.Have demos available. trying the game might influence purchase.

You can add onmy list if you want

Peace out.

while all these are true, 3 and 5 are debatable.

Portal, half life series and fallout series are fun because of its singleplayer value.

and about the availablity, I read article yesterday that Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez thinks PS3 is a poison. and I remember reading articles few months back that Austraila banned some games... Availablity has more to do with that region rather than the developers/publishers.

sounds like alot of people are defending piracy. Its still freaking illigal. I spent my hard earned cash on my games. People spend lots of time working and developing these games. What your saying is you don't repsect the developers enough to acutally pay them for the work they have put into them. If that be the case then you shouldn't even want to pirate the damn games in the first place. Smudged_one

At least, you take the time to download the game and play it, if the game is good enough that people want to pirate it, go crazy!

actually they dont...

its just another form of theft... (so they say) so is the arm and leg they want to charge us too..(dont forget that)

but it starts messing with their money... (profit) if you think its anything new for "controversy" over loss of profits, you need to take a real good close look at every single war America has ever been in (and why they were in it) and who made money off of it.

i would love to see the developers come down hard legally on pirates leading to fines and/or jail time.

the fact is if you cant afford to buy a game you dont have the right to own it.

as someone who pays for all there games i group pirates in the same scumbag catagory as your every day thief.

i would love to see the developers come down hard legally on pirates leading to fines and/or jail time.

the fact is if you cant afford to buy a game you dont have the right to own it.

as someone who pays for all there games i group pirates in the same scumbag catagory as your every day thief.

AGMing

i would love to see the developers come down hard legally on pirates leading to fines and/or jail time.

the fact is if you cant afford to buy a game you dont have the right to own it.

as someone who pays for all there games i group pirates in the same scumbag catagory as your every day thief.

AGMing