I can't believe that some of you think that for every 5 copies sold there are 95 pirated copies.

That is so illogical as to make me think you are all just trolling.

given the 95% of all copies are pirated number:

If there is 3 million sales of Crysis and that is only 5% of the game out there then there are 60 million pirated copies?

That is completely unbelievable.

You know how some politicians like to complain that the rich people need to pay more taxes, and how they should pay "their fair share" and all that. Have you ever noticed that when politicians complain about rich people it's pretty much always "Wall street needs to pay their fair share" or those rich CEOs and bankers and corporate jet owners need to pay more taxes. Why don't we ever hear politicians saying "Hollywood needs to pay their fair share", or the rappers, and NBA players and NFL players need to pay more taxes?

Why is it always "warren buffet should pay more taxes" and never "Snoop Dogg or Lebron James needs to pay more taxes"?

whipassmt

but snoop dog doesn't make all his money on capital gains which is taxed at a lower rate. unlike wall street and bankers.

There's a lot of people claiming that it's made up, that it's a lie and that it's apparently all Ubisoft lying. Does anyone actually have ANY basis for claiming that it's all some kind of lie or plot? What does Ubisoft stand to gain from lying? I can understand why PC Gamers don't like hearing that Piracy is really high, but why do people continue to stubbornly claim that it must all be a lie and a plot without a) Giving any supporting evidence b) No reason or logic for this grand conspiracy? When CD Project released their game without DRM and with lots of DX11 features people here were all agreeing how good and honest they were and how other should just look to CD Project as the perfect example of how to handle PC Development. When CD Project said that they were finding that their game was being pirated 4.5 times for each sold copy, people insist that it was a plot, a lie and somehow CD Project were now greedy gits out to deceive PC Gamers.Mazoch

You are now aware that CD projekt said that the copy of their game that didn't have any DRM AT ALL, got pirated less and as such they will no longer put DRM on their games.

[QUOTE="SaintLeonidas"]Atheist put up billboard = attacking religion! Religious group puts up billboard = expressing their beliefs. kingkong0124

Wrong. This billboard IS attacking a religion. If there was a billboard that expressed an atheist's beliefs, it'd be something like "the concept of God is illogical" not "the Christian god is sadistic". Likewise, if a religious group puts up a billboard that says all people who don't believe in Jesus will go to hell it is also wrong.

Did you maybe consider that atheists believe the christian god to be sadistic?

[QUOTE="DaBrainz"]Since you started with the term "Faux News" you must be contesting something about this report. What is it?sonicare

I'd ask if you were new to the internet, but you have 51000 posts. So I will just ask: are you an idiot?

It seems about right, if we consider the insanely high number of people that play games of any kind on PCs, it's however another story when it comes to high profile gaming, tho it's probably right for Ubisoft considering they have the most pirated games on PC, even AC which is extremely popular isn't so hot.DanielDust

Did you get dropped on your head as a child?

whoever is putting hdds in this build is mentally deficient

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They're not? Is being delusional part of the AMD fanboy's MO? They're pretty much in control of the desktop market from the high to low end segment. The only reason they don't all of a sudden decide to lower all their prices and essentially crush AMD into oblivion is in order to keep the FTC off their back. This is the most advantageous position for them to be in, to give the government the satisfaction of it looking like a two horse race. Here's an article on market share from earlier in the year that even paints AMD in positive light:

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9226580/AMD_gains_x86_processor_market_share_on_Intel_in_Q1

Get this: Intel's market share dropped from 81% to 80.2%. Let that sink in for a second. That means they command more than 4/5 of the entire CPU sector, and that's before Ivy Bridge even shipped. Not a monopoly you say? Maybe not officially but that's pretty much as monopolistic as it gets without the suits breathing down your neck.

SolidPandaG

I'd like to take this time to point out that 27% of PCs on the steam hardware survey are running AMD.

If you can't put 2 and 2 together, that means that most of intels sales are:

"Hey Earl, we need that internet. I seent that commercial about the intel on the TV, let's get that at walmart"

"Alright Tammy, let me go put on ma good fishin hat"

I'm betting that's how you got yours.

Steam is not indicative of the entire market. In fact, it isn't even indicative of the entire enthusiast market so the numbers aren't the be all Gospel. As to your second point, it does nothing but validate mine: average Joes and Janes will typically buy Intel because their brand name is so strong.

Also, get your facts straight. I didn't get mine at Walmart, I got it at Toys'R'Us. Fisher price model son.

Steam hardware survey is a perfect data pool to pick from, from a statistical standpoint. Perhaps you need to freshen up on your stats (have you ever taken statistics?)

It is a random sample from the entire steam community, it is about as a properly conducted random survey as you will find.

I used to drive a '69 with a 200 inline 6, it got about 19 mpg and looked way better than these crappy newer mustangs.

America would be better off if we just let all the other nations to their own devices.

America's involvement keeps the world from self destructing however.