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."
man, this thread really makes me sad and I suddenly understand why people from within the industry, like MikeR, stopped posting on the topic on ShackNews...
I'm not one to get angry over internet discussions, but this is just way outta line, I can't believe so many folks calling themselves hardcore gamers and then piss on the people who make their games, dismiss their reasoning with ridiculous assumptions and accusations, and have the nerve to claim they're helping. WTF?
You retards exactly deserve whatever the industry is turning into, you deserve Madden 666, Need for Speed 42 and Battlefield 1337, even if you will only pirate them because they're "not worth buying", but it annoys the heck out of me that so many people here are actively helping to ruin my hobby which looked so great 10 years ago. It annoys me how you justify your actions with total horseshit reasons and even claim it's all someone else's fault, and you even think you're all that smart and reasonable.
You're not. You goddamn punks act all high and mighty when you make fun of the few generally successful PC games like "The Sims" (lolol, kiddie/girl game), MMOs and the growing casual games market, you discuss with fervour and anger how PC games are "dumbed down" and "consolized", you bitch and moan when publishers turn to closed platforms and take away your favourite franchises and move them to consoles. And it's all the fault of the greedy rich pusblisher bastards and the incompetent game developers who only make shitty games not worth buying anymore so you HAVE TO pirate them to teach them, or to try them because there's NO WAY IN HELL you can judge a game without playing through it three times first. What a bunch of hypocrites, and you claim "mainstream gamers" are dumb? HA.
You guys are a fucking shame.
I'm not one to get angry over internet discussions, but this is just way outta line, I can't believe so many folks calling themselves hardcore gamers and then piss on the people who make their games, dismiss their reasoning with ridiculous assumptions and accusations, and have the nerve to claim they're helping. WTF?
You retards exactly deserve whatever the industry is turning into, you deserve Madden 666, Need for Speed 42 and Battlefield 1337, even if you will only pirate them because they're "not worth buying", but it annoys the heck out of me that so many people here are actively helping to ruin my hobby which looked so great 10 years ago. It annoys me how you justify your actions with total horseshit reasons and even claim it's all someone else's fault, and you even think you're all that smart and reasonable.
You're not. You goddamn punks act all high and mighty when you make fun of the few generally successful PC games like "The Sims" (lolol, kiddie/girl game), MMOs and the growing casual games market, you discuss with fervour and anger how PC games are "dumbed down" and "consolized", you bitch and moan when publishers turn to closed platforms and take away your favourite franchises and move them to consoles. And it's all the fault of the greedy rich pusblisher bastards and the incompetent game developers who only make shitty games not worth buying anymore so you HAVE TO pirate them to teach them, or to try them because there's NO WAY IN HELL you can judge a game without playing through it three times first. What a bunch of hypocrites, and you claim "mainstream gamers" are dumb? HA.
You guys are a fucking shame.
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