Why pay when you can get it for free! PC Gaming piracy NPD numbers. (With Poll!)

[QUOTE="rimnet00"]

Not at all. The 360 release scene is very different from the PC release scene. Private trackers for console releases are the most popular, while not so much with PC games for that very reason.

Deihmos

Well you should know.

Hmm....Interesting.

The 14 Million (Last time I checked, which was around early January) WoW-Players, who have paid $20 for the game itself and are paying $15 a month, say "Hi". I'm sure that almost everyone of them owns Burning Crusade, too.

Games like WoW which are pirate-free keep the PC Gaming-industry far from death. The estimated annual cost of all those subscription fees are $210,000,000, most of which will go towards running the game (patches, servers, etc.), but you get the idea.

[QUOTE="Cranler"][QUOTE="Bebi_vegeta"][QUOTE="Cranler"]

[QUOTE="artichoke"]You can pirate console games also. Besides buying used games hurts developers just as much as pirating games does.

Bebi_vegeta

How? Buying a used game means someone else bought the copy.

1 copy sold that goes to the pub/dev vs pc Assassins Creed for example which hasnt sold any copies yet and thousands of people are currently playing it.

He just said it was like a demo of assasin's creed since you don't have the full game.

Its the full game.

You also cant compare 1 bought copy thats torrented to thousands of people to a console game being owned by 2 people.

Look, it's not the full game. You can look in the link at the first page.

There's also alot of DS & PSP games in the torrents your talking, and they seem to sell very well.

Yes it is. There are just some corrupted files in the English version preventing progress at a certain point. Criminals are currently hard at work to get it fixed.

Why are you going against me? Comparing the sale of used games to 3,000 Bioshock downloads in one day is absurd.

[QUOTE="Bebi_vegeta"][QUOTE="Cranler"][QUOTE="Bebi_vegeta"][QUOTE="Cranler"]

[QUOTE="artichoke"]You can pirate console games also. Besides buying used games hurts developers just as much as pirating games does.

Cranler

How? Buying a used game means someone else bought the copy.

1 copy sold that goes to the pub/dev vs pc Assassins Creed for example which hasnt sold any copies yet and thousands of people are currently playing it.

He just said it was like a demo of assasin's creed since you don't have the full game.

Its the full game.

You also cant compare 1 bought copy thats torrented to thousands of people to a console game being owned by 2 people.

Look, it's not the full game. You can look in the link at the first page.

There's also alot of DS & PSP games in the torrents your talking, and they seem to sell very well.

Yes it is. There are just some corrupted files in the English version preventing progress at a certain point. Criminals are currently hard at work to get it fixed.

Why are you going against me? Comparing the sale of used games to 3,000 Bioshock downloads in one day is absurd.

Because in the very link of the TC he states that its like a demo... so your the one who's actually going agaisnt his words.

And I never said anything about used games!!! Good games sell, that's the bottom line.