[QUOTE="Vandalvideo"][QUOTE="Shafftehr"] Then don't purchase it. What's your point here, piracy is OK? As this video pretty clearly shows, it is just hurting even the most die-hard anti DRM PC developers.Shafftehr
I'm saying that you can't necessarily blame the pirates for the game selling poorly. There is more to this than just; Pirates booo, developers yaaay. PC Gamers won't purchase half efforts. He's not blaming pirates for bad sales, he's blaming pirates for essentially ruining the online experience for the paying customers - which is *entirely* true. Sorry, but this "pirates booo" because they're not doing any good - and you only say "developers yayyy" if you buy the game. Doing what was done here is just taking a big wet steaming dump on a developer that has a development model that many here (yourself included) claim to care about. Why the heck WOULDN'T you say "pirates boooo" in this case? Or let me guess, you were somewhere in that six figure number they've been quoting there Vandal. The sad fact which you're so deftly avoiding that stealing games, playing them online, and ruining it for paying customers is just a trashy thing to do. If they really didn't think the game was worth buying, why the heck are they online playing it? Sadly enough, this case just goes to show that extensive security measure make sense because PC gamers are so ready to justify piracy ta the drop of a hat - even when it is extremely hurtful to a developer who is trying very hard to keep some corner of PC gaming DRM free.This is true, but I wouldn't use the term stealing because it's inaccurate. Piracy is illegal copying and distribution as opposed to actually stealing. You can even buy a product and then pirate it.
Though really there is no defense for illegally downloading games. People seem to have a hard time accepting that just because you can get away with something that dosn't make it acceptable. Essentially what pirates and people illegally downloading games, or even music or film, are doing is driving those industries towards their own destruction. They are denying profit to those who worked so hard to earn it. They think everything should be for free because it can be made to be so. It sickens me to think that people believe what they are doing is socially acceptable under particular circumstances. The worst are the ones that try and defend what they are doing, "But I can't afford it!", "I just want to try it!", yeah that's nice and all, but you know what? That's completely against the law regardless and it's not even a good defense. It's like going into a super market, opening a packet of crisps because you can't afford them or you just want to try them. If a game is bad then that's that. It's simple, you want a game, you buy it, you think a game will be crap, you don't. That way we can atleast keep our own hobby intact instead of the sorry state it could be in in a few years . If only there was some definitive way to stop piracy for good, and I don't care how extreme. As far as I'm concerned people deserve what would come to them.
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