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."
I love what that fool of a man Broussard is saying on the fileshack version of this board. What a goddamn tool.
Basically, he is over there saying how Gears of War would never sell 4 million on the PC the way it did on Xbox...and some astute PC gamer called him on it and stated the FACT that G.O.W. is a subpar FPS that just isn't good enough to be a hit PC game, and what does this imbecile Broussard say?
Oh, I don't know, I was too busy laughing at the fact that he's two months away from collecting my trash and flipping burgers. Basically, he said GOW deserves its hype and that it earned those sales figures.
Bullcrap.
I have GOW. I bought into the hype and grabbed it. I beat it in two days. Roughly 4 hours of play. I stretched it out by going through Hardcore mode...that lasted another 4-5 hours making the game last a grand total of FIVE days.
The multiplayer consisted of only one game mode cleverly disguised to look like three, and only allowed 4 on 4. Ick! So, yeah, I went back to HL2DM and CS:S.
It's a fact Broussard, GOW is not good enough to be a hit PC Game. PC Gamers are nowhere near as likely to put up with short, shallow games like GOW on their platform. You see how horrible Quake 4 did, didn't you? Or how badly Unreal 2 did? We won't put up with that, unlike the console kiddies who will lap up anything like hungry dogs.
See, Piracy is a SYMPTOM, not the CAUSE of PC Gaming's decline. People torrent games because they aren't going to pay 50-60 bucks for a game that is a shallow as Duke Nukem's gene pool and as empty and soulless as the strippers on level 2 of his game. Got it?
I have several friends whom you would consider pirates, and they rarely buy PC games. The only time they DO buy them is when a game DESERVES their money. I've even asked them why they torrent, and that is the always their answer: "I won't buy something that isn't worth it".
Look at the drek that the PC Game world has dropped on us in the past 7 years. Has there been a good PC RPG since Fallout 2? Has there been a good FPS since the original UT and Q3a? Has there been a decent Diablo clone since Diablo 2? No, no, and a big NO on the third one.
Don't blame piracy, blame yourselves. Make shallow, uninteresting, unchallenging pieces of sh*t and guess what you'll see? People downloading the iso off of a torrent.
As for not pirating an MMO, that's bullcrap too.
I have a friend on xfire now who DL'ed the WoW client and plays on a player run server where the level cap is 250. Apparently, there are several of these servers and you don't even need to pay Blizzard to play on them.
Research Mr. Broussard. Research.
Also, Laundry. Chop chop!
Mr. Broussard should be cleaning my laundry in about a week. You know, when the money he is getting for pretending to work on games runs out!
Basically, he is over there saying how Gears of War would never sell 4 million on the PC the way it did on Xbox...and some astute PC gamer called him on it and stated the FACT that G.O.W. is a subpar FPS that just isn't good enough to be a hit PC game, and what does this imbecile Broussard say?
Oh, I don't know, I was too busy laughing at the fact that he's two months away from collecting my trash and flipping burgers. Basically, he said GOW deserves its hype and that it earned those sales figures.
Bullcrap.
I have GOW. I bought into the hype and grabbed it. I beat it in two days. Roughly 4 hours of play. I stretched it out by going through Hardcore mode...that lasted another 4-5 hours making the game last a grand total of FIVE days.
The multiplayer consisted of only one game mode cleverly disguised to look like three, and only allowed 4 on 4. Ick! So, yeah, I went back to HL2DM and CS:S.
It's a fact Broussard, GOW is not good enough to be a hit PC Game. PC Gamers are nowhere near as likely to put up with short, shallow games like GOW on their platform. You see how horrible Quake 4 did, didn't you? Or how badly Unreal 2 did? We won't put up with that, unlike the console kiddies who will lap up anything like hungry dogs.
See, Piracy is a SYMPTOM, not the CAUSE of PC Gaming's decline. People torrent games because they aren't going to pay 50-60 bucks for a game that is a shallow as Duke Nukem's gene pool and as empty and soulless as the strippers on level 2 of his game. Got it?
I have several friends whom you would consider pirates, and they rarely buy PC games. The only time they DO buy them is when a game DESERVES their money. I've even asked them why they torrent, and that is the always their answer: "I won't buy something that isn't worth it".
Look at the drek that the PC Game world has dropped on us in the past 7 years. Has there been a good PC RPG since Fallout 2? Has there been a good FPS since the original UT and Q3a? Has there been a decent Diablo clone since Diablo 2? No, no, and a big NO on the third one.
Don't blame piracy, blame yourselves. Make shallow, uninteresting, unchallenging pieces of sh*t and guess what you'll see? People downloading the iso off of a torrent.
As for not pirating an MMO, that's bullcrap too.
I have a friend on xfire now who DL'ed the WoW client and plays on a player run server where the level cap is 250. Apparently, there are several of these servers and you don't even need to pay Blizzard to play on them.
Research Mr. Broussard. Research.
Also, Laundry. Chop chop!
Mr. Broussard should be cleaning my laundry in about a week. You know, when the money he is getting for pretending to work on games runs out!
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