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StingingVelvet wrote on Feb 20, 2011, 04:58:
People keep bringing this up but never pay attention to the reason: the 360 version will still sell well. The PC version's sales will still pale in comparison. It's not about piracy it's about sales. When PC versions sell poorly AND have tons of piracy then it's a deal. It's a story. When Xbox versions have tons of piracy but still sell amazingly well it's a footnote, the game is a success.
Define "sell poorly". The PC is not a 360, in which you can box a piece of Kotick's shit, put Call of Duty in the front, and sell 10 million units in a couple of weeks.
PC gamers watch more what they buy and for how much. PC gamers have Steam (for example) and know that the price will drop in 1-2 years tops. You can't expect PC gamers to buy your game in droves when 1) You're giving them a poor port, 2) They already have lots of great games to buy for $10 and 3) You are calling them thieves.
Whenever I hear a developer cry about piracy, I cringe. Great games sell splendidly. Developers that don't mistreat their customers are more supported. If you game has 90% piracy in countries where they can't (and that's CAN NOT, not WILL NOT) buy your game, or your game isn't simply for sale, and you make the remaining 10% pay for it, be it DRM, removing features (true dedis, LAN, etc) or not releasing DLC that the consoles get, then it's your fucking fault that you will sell less of your next game AND (and I don't condone this) cause more piracy.
I have zero respect for developers like Crytek that release a boring tech demo, sell A LOT for a game that didn't work on 70-80% of machines at the time, and then cry that they would have sold 20 million games if not for PC piracy. Yeah, right.
So xbox is not as pirated, percent wise, as PC. So what?. In the end, if you look at price and numbers, and if you apply the distributor's reasoning saying that a pirated sale is a lost sale, they lose A LOT more to console piracy than they do to PC piracy.
Where's the outcry?. Why are they not calling console gamers thieves?. Why not more DRM, less features and more shitting on console gamers?. They should start putting a lot of those in the PS3 now, should they?.
As for preparation, xbox piracy requires less preparation than PC: go to a store, ask them to put a modchip (legal, BTW, in several countries), download ISOs, burn ISOs, play. I think you can even play from USB disks, so you don't even need the DVDs.
So, again, console piracy is as easy as PC piracy, and the "calculated" losses are WAY bigger. Where's the fucking outcry?. Where are the insults to the console gamers?. |
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Feb 20, 12:08 |
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Feb 20, 08:01 |
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