Smaller the game file size and crappier the graphics means more people are going to pirate. Not everybody is going to sit around waiting for a 30 to 50gb game to download but most will for a 100 to 300mb game.
I used to pirate a lot till steam started offering refunds if we didn't like the game. I consider it a trail version before I buy it.
Regardless it seems they are not in it for the money it seems else they would have released Red Dead Redemption on PC by now. I know it's not from lack of interest from the PC community and have never really cited a reason not to besides piracy which is a joke. They would more than make their money back from porting it regardless of the piracy rate.
I look at it the other way. the some 400 titles on my Steam account currently i can say 95% of those were pirated before hand and if i so enjoyed that game then i purchased it. the other 5% either had a open beta or something of those sorts or a legit demo to try out.
I usually probably buy 2 or 3 games a week and a lot of them are obscure indie titles and games that if i hadn't pirated to try out and found i like them.. i would have never purchased. I do this a lot less now that Steam offers refunds up to two hours of gameplay which usually affords me enough time to see if i'm going to enjoy the game or not but still the point still stands before Valve started doing this a lot of my purchases would have never been made.
Either way i have no qualms about how i make my decisions. If i don't like it i delete it, If i happen to like it then i will buy it.
The Witness is not my type of game so i simply won't be playing it.
I spend insane amounts of money on my Pc every year or so and even I think $600 is too high of a price.
Probably because I've used my uncles dev kit and wasn't that impressed. Coolest thing was watching a movie in a virtual theater.
After the initial hype dies down I imagine the rift is going to flounder... not to mention from what I've been told the HTC Vive is much better and probably what I will get If the price is reasonable.
@cmdr_danbo: Oh yes police... my wife works at the local sheriffs office as a dispatcher. All you have to pass is a general knowledge test.... Which kind of pisses me off. I work in the private sector and have to have qualifications out my ass to dispatch yet at the sheriffs office they make triple the salary i do and have state benefits as well that they don't have to pay for.
My wife and i worked at my current job for 5 years together in the same room every night and she makes what we made together at the sheriffs office. Public Fire EMS and Police dispatchers are rarely EMD certified and don't give any sort of pre arrival instructions.
Here i am dispatching for several counties with upwards of 20 Ambulances and 2 helicopters and one airplane all by myself as well as taking all the 911 calls coming in yet everyone else is allowed to scrap by and do almost nothing.
@cmdr_danbo: Not true in many cases. The place i work at is privately owned and you have to have been a paramedic for at least 5 years before your even considered for a position in dispatch.
@Jaxith: Oh i agree.. just saying things like delayed calls and response times are often and usually because someone isn't paying attention. In a life and death situation unless you are fully commited to your job and do it properly then you should be fired. the severity of the job demands it.
I bring my games and my kindle white and my phone and most times my tablet with me to every shift. i also bring a portable hard drive with about 600 movies on it. 90% of a dispatchers job is sitting on your ass doing nothing unless you work in a big city. I work 12 hour shifts and i maybe work 2 to 3 hours of that total shift.
My job is to be there when something happens and to provide the quickest and most appropriate response for the situation at hand. What i do with my time other than that im free to do what i want.
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