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."
.. and this thread is a prime example of whats really wrong with the industry, developers and pirates have thier little war on and its the paying customer who gets the shaft. In this entire thread legitimate customer complaints are completely ignored while you duke it out with the pirates. I do not give a shit how many people download your games, it is NOT MY PROBLEM, you do far more damage to yourselves fucking over your paying customers then pirates can ever do to you.
You want to go after illegal downloading, go for it, with my blessings, but DO NOT do it at my expense.
All this effort wasted on a impossible attempt to stop illegal copying, you want more sales? spend that money and effort making sure your product stays on the shelf. Look at all the top selling PC games ever, whats the one common thing about them (besides bieng good games) they are still on the store shelves, even after years you can still find these old games in your local store. So many times I have missed a game becuase I was just too busy with other things, then years later I want that game I passed up and I cannot find it in any store. How many sales are you losing becuase PC games have such a short shelf life, most people cannot keep up with the latest hardware and therefore cannot play the newest games and can no longer buy those older games that they can run. I bet if a store had every title released in the last ten years you would find that 5-6 year old games sell more units then the latest games.
"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both." Benjamin Franklin
You want to go after illegal downloading, go for it, with my blessings, but DO NOT do it at my expense.
All this effort wasted on a impossible attempt to stop illegal copying, you want more sales? spend that money and effort making sure your product stays on the shelf. Look at all the top selling PC games ever, whats the one common thing about them (besides bieng good games) they are still on the store shelves, even after years you can still find these old games in your local store. So many times I have missed a game becuase I was just too busy with other things, then years later I want that game I passed up and I cannot find it in any store. How many sales are you losing becuase PC games have such a short shelf life, most people cannot keep up with the latest hardware and therefore cannot play the newest games and can no longer buy those older games that they can run. I bet if a store had every title released in the last ten years you would find that 5-6 year old games sell more units then the latest games.
"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both." Benjamin Franklin
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