Piracy versus PC Gaming [Mar 09, 2007, 8:23 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
Next Generation recaps a GDC talk titled "The Videogame Piracy Problem:
Fifteen Men on a Dead Man’s Chest" by id Software CEO Todd Hollenshead about the
impact of piracy on the game industry. They outline how Mr. Hollenshead says the
estimated $3 billion economic loss caused by piracy in 2004 does not include
piracy that takes place on the Internet. There is also an article about this
talk on
Joystiq that focuses on the statement that piracy is a factor in id's
embrace of consoles, quoting Todd as saying "Piracy has pushed id as being
multiplatform." On a related note,
Can PC
Gaming Survive in a Console World (thanks
Digg) recaps a panel discussion on the topic that brought up a similar
point:
Part of the problem is piracy. Big titles get stolen by cyber thieves, and it hurts revenue. "The market," said Capps, "that would buy a $600 video card knows how Bittorrent works."
Does that mean casual games, which exponentially outsell what PC gaming traditionalists think of as A-list titles, will one day rule? Hilleman made a point: casual is a poor choice of words. The average player on EA's Pogo "casual" game network plays "for 24 hours a week. There's nothing casual about that."
There is some light in the PC gaming world. World of Warcraft, for instance, is a massive hit, and the upcoming Spore looks not only creative and different, but promising. The MMO and other social networking games could become the norm for PC gaming, with big-ticket titles growing rarer with each passing year. Johnson added that MMOs are "successful because you can't pirate WoW. You cannot pirate an MMO. Period." Therefore, he said, "game design on the PC is going to bend toward persistence."
The game is not free. Just because you can aquire it illegally without paying does not make it free. Strike one!Actually it is you who struck out because you totally missed the meaning of the term free in the context in which I used it. The game is free to the downloader, i.e. he is not remitting payment for it. Sure he is not acquiring the game legally, but I did not contend that he is.
And that blanket statementIt is not a blanket statement. If you are going to try to imitate the terms I have used against you in the past, you need to learn what those terms actually mean. The statement applies specifically to the situation I described, i.e. a downloader acquiring an unauthorized copy of a three-year-old game which commonly sells for a nominal price such as $10. Someone who is acquiring an unauthorized copy of a game which is that old and that inexpensive to buy simply would not buy the game at any price. The people are acquiring it simply because it is available to them for download for free. If it were not available for download they would simply download something else. They would not purchase the game, and therefore it is not a lost sale.
Yeah, I couldn't break into one house and steal so I'll break into the one next door.That is exactly the attitude in play. They do not download as a substitute to purchasing a specific item. They download just to download something for free. That is why there is no lost sale in that circumstance.
What exactly is your point.LOL! Well at least now you admit that you can't understand what you read. Admitting you have a problem is normally the first step to solving it, but you are simply a lost cause.
And denying that there is no negative impact is even more ludicrous.While I am not saying that there is absolutely no negative impact, even if I were, it wouldn't be more ludicrous because having no negative impact is much closer to the truth than it having a huge impact. To put it in simple terms even you should be able to understand, if the game industry were to say that unauthorized use of its products cost it 50% in lost revenue per year, I were to say it cost it no lost revenue, and the actual impact were only 1% in lost revenue, my claim would be much closer to the truth that the exaggerated claim of the game industry, i.e. 1 is closer to being 0 than being 50.
...kids...By the way I find it hilarious that you claim to be an adult and yet read, write, and reason so poorly. If you truely are an adult, whoever provided your education owes you a big refund because they did not deliver one.
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