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Would Pirates Have Bought Crysis?

[Aug 28, 2008, 03:24 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Edge Online has some quotes from Harald Seeley taken from an upcoming interview with the Engine Business Manager at Crytek about controversial remarks by Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli about the dire impact of PC piracy on sales of Crysis (story). Harald concedes that not everyone who pirated their first-person shooter would have bought it, but he thinks there is an argument to be made that those still playing the game and downloading patches (they apparently still have more active users than unit sales) could be considered lost customers: "I think we can safely say if they were still playing the game by the time our latest patch released, and if they were playing on a pirated copy, then they were a sale that didn’t happen but probably would have had it not been possible to obtain the game illegally." He also makes observations about DRM, saying: "For example, the consoles themselves are, in one sense, simply very good DRM technologies that consumers welcome and pay for, in order to receive the benefits that come with them…"

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Aug 31, 2008, 02:07

manic half

All I hear from you about piracy is that you should be able to try products before you buy them, which is bullshit. Demos exist to test games - you can argue that they may not represent the game accurately but then neither does a 200 mile test drive in a new car and no car manufacturer is going to offer you a 20,000 mile demonstration. yes, but ALL car dealers will let you test drive cars. not all games come with demos. very very few come with demos these days. what if the car dealer said 'oh no, you cant test drive it. you cant even sit in it. just look at it and decide from that'. how fucking stupid are you?

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Comment [quote="manic half"Aug 31, 2008, 02:07]q[All I hear from you about piracy is that you should be able to try products before you buy them, which is bullshit. Demos exist to test games - you can argue that they may not represent the game accurately but then neither does a 200 mile test drive in a new car and no car manufacturer is going to offer you a 20,000 mile demonstration.]q yes, but ALL car dealers will let you test drive cars. not all games come with demos. very very few come with demos these days. what if the car dealer said 'oh no, you cant test drive it. you cant even sit in it. just look at it and decide from that'. how fucking stupid are you? [/quote]

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