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."
They followed the cattle herd to consoles because the people flocked to the consoles.
PC gamers are really tiny in comparisson to consoles.
I blame OpenGL for pretty much giving up on the gaming market.
Sure PlayStation uses OGL but so does the Mac and Linux and PC's but with XBox DirectX is the only show in town for Xbox/PC now as game engine developers capatilise on that.
What we need is Apple to get serious into gaming then that would be a HUGE catalyst for getting OpenGL back in vogue.
Lets not forget that console makers can practically pay a huge subsidy for big name titles in order to increase sales of the hardware via exclusivity.
Game houses slap this up big time. No PC maker does this.
Console maker subsidies are killing PC gaming.
The only way games are comming to the PC that exist on consoles are subsidised by Microsoft in order to drive Vista sales via DX10 exclusivity.
This comment was edited on Mar 16, 02:39.
PC gamers are really tiny in comparisson to consoles.
I blame OpenGL for pretty much giving up on the gaming market.
Sure PlayStation uses OGL but so does the Mac and Linux and PC's but with XBox DirectX is the only show in town for Xbox/PC now as game engine developers capatilise on that.
What we need is Apple to get serious into gaming then that would be a HUGE catalyst for getting OpenGL back in vogue.
Lets not forget that console makers can practically pay a huge subsidy for big name titles in order to increase sales of the hardware via exclusivity.
Game houses slap this up big time. No PC maker does this.
Console maker subsidies are killing PC gaming.
The only way games are comming to the PC that exist on consoles are subsidised by Microsoft in order to drive Vista sales via DX10 exclusivity.
This comment was edited on Mar 16, 02:39.
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