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? Nobody forces you to upgrade your hardware more often than you wish just as nobody forces you to buy every game on the market.
I use laptops for gaming and I stretch mine out to about 3 year lifetime. Thats ample for gaming. I have had mine for nearly 3 years and only now is it straining for the latest games. Time to upgrade but every 3 years is nothing.
Working at a games company is no different from a software company, you have the usual food chain and not everybody makes the big money that is claimed on here. As usual the execs get the big money and the actual worker bees dont.
Im quite sure you can still squeeze more than 18 months from a graphics card. You can also save by waiting a bit for the prices to drop, nobody needs to upgrade as soon as they hit the shelves, only a numpty does that.
You can always change your hobby if you dont like it or make your own hardware and games.
The fact that you spend such a huge amount of money on a graphics card that often means you are 1) stupid and 2) have more money than sense and 3) can obviously afford the games.
Game prices are like every other item in stores, they all have a set entry level price, and when a new one comes out, they take the new item price and the rest trickle down in price to accomodate.
You actually have an advantage by not running the full glitter and razzle dazzle, you can see the enemy in games easier without the eye candy. You have faster smoother screen updates, I disable alot of that anyway regardless if my hardware can handle it or not. I only keep some dynamic items such as lighting and shadows etc so I can find them easier as they try to hide. Nobody needs or wants fog, if they cant design a game so that a high level of eye candy has the same chance as one with lower eye candy then tough titty. Its not cheating its taking the advantage
And you get to use your hardaware for longer than 18 months.
This comment was edited on Mar 11, 16:54.
I use laptops for gaming and I stretch mine out to about 3 year lifetime. Thats ample for gaming. I have had mine for nearly 3 years and only now is it straining for the latest games. Time to upgrade but every 3 years is nothing.
Working at a games company is no different from a software company, you have the usual food chain and not everybody makes the big money that is claimed on here. As usual the execs get the big money and the actual worker bees dont.
Im quite sure you can still squeeze more than 18 months from a graphics card. You can also save by waiting a bit for the prices to drop, nobody needs to upgrade as soon as they hit the shelves, only a numpty does that.
You can always change your hobby if you dont like it or make your own hardware and games.
The fact that you spend such a huge amount of money on a graphics card that often means you are 1) stupid and 2) have more money than sense and 3) can obviously afford the games.
Game prices are like every other item in stores, they all have a set entry level price, and when a new one comes out, they take the new item price and the rest trickle down in price to accomodate.
You actually have an advantage by not running the full glitter and razzle dazzle, you can see the enemy in games easier without the eye candy. You have faster smoother screen updates, I disable alot of that anyway regardless if my hardware can handle it or not. I only keep some dynamic items such as lighting and shadows etc so I can find them easier as they try to hide. Nobody needs or wants fog, if they cant design a game so that a high level of eye candy has the same chance as one with lower eye candy then tough titty. Its not cheating its taking the advantage
And you get to use your hardaware for longer than 18 months.This comment was edited on Mar 11, 16:54.
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