[QUOTE="Koalakommander"]This is getting very annoying.
People pirate games that they would never buy in the first place.
Makari
He knows that. The same guy also said that if there was no piracy whatsoever, he thinks the game would have sold maybe twice as well at best. 3 million. That sounds completely unreasonable to you?Yes.
For example, the release of Crysis. The people who have been looking forward to this game and thought it looked awsome, and read all the great reviews will 90% of the time go out and purchase it.
As for people who aren't very interested, and may just want to try the game out without having to drop $50 on it, or maybe just want to see if their computer can handle the game -- they will pirate it.
If pirating was impossible to do, this demographic of people simply wouldn't purchase the game -- they don't care. Yes there are a few people out there who pirate games they want very badly, but not so much as it would increase the sales of a game by any significant amount.
So developers are complaining they are losing money because people steal, when really these pirates wouldn't buy your game in the first place. Find me a thief that upon hearing that his method of stealing no longer worked, would then go out and purchase the item instead. The people who steal Crysis don't respect Crysis, they don't want to drop $50 for a short single-player campaign and a terrible mutliplayer component that they are never going to play.
Crysis was a great game, and it had great sales (it was also pirated alot).
Starcraft was a great game, and it had some of the best sales in gaming history (and it was pirated to hell).
Do you see Blizzard crying? Do you see Blizzard jumping to consoles because pirates are ruining their profits? No. Because Blizzard knows that if it puts a high quality product on the market -- people will buy it.
So how do you fix pirating? Well if you somehow make pirating impossible, you would be delusional to think that those former pirates care enough about your game to buy it.
So this is how you fix it:
Make better games -- dont just make quality, make quantity. Give people content. An 8 hour single-player campaign may be awsome, but it's just that. I only buy games that last.
Computer Game Rental -- Give people the option of being able to pay $5-10 to play the game for a week, and you will see pirating decrease drastically. The majority of people would rather dish out some pocket change to play a game rather than start a 48 hour download, figure out how to crack the CD code and run the ISO (if the download actually worked) etc...
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