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Re: Bulletstorm Sequel Cancelled; PC Piracy Mentioned

Apr 10, 2012, 12:29

Fletch

Beamer wrote on Apr 10, 2012, 10:04: If people didn't want to play it then it wouldn't have been pirated like crazy. You can say people didn't want to pay for it, but undoubtedly if piracy was not an option then sales would have been better. While we can debate all day what portion of pirates would otherwise buy a game (low), I don't think anyone would argue none would. If a game is pirated a million times I think it's safe to say that's 100,000 lost sales. Bulletstorm was pirated more than a million times. Where do you get THOSE numbers? I don't think it's even close to 10%. And I think the vast majority of those who did pirate it didn't play it for long, and were thankful they didn't waste $40. Companies who rely on day one sales for games they know are crap are just as dishonest as pirates. They want as many people buying their non-refundable game before word gets out how fucking bad it is. It was a shitty console port, period. Make good PC games, sell lots of PC games. Make shitty, consolized PC games, sell few PC games.

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