Blulum posted...
PartOfYourWorld posted...
I bet you can find more than one or two on this board alone. I used to play via emulators every once in a while and completely stopped now that Steam and even the consoles have started to offer tons of games at great prices. Like, I've paid for almost a dozen old Nintendo games on Virtual Console when I had nearly all of them on emulators in the past. You give people a great value, and they'll usually support you.
Also, isn't the state of PC gaming much healthier now than before Steam blew up (say, five years ago)? Yeah, pirates will always exist, but at least it's not a "dying" format anymore.
This P much. You can see the juxtaposition pretty clearly comparing Valve and Nintendo, the PC is experiencing a revival while Xenoblade is getting pirated in record numbers. It's all about how you treat your customers.
Yeah, exactly. It's not like Punch-Out Wii got pirated more than it actually sold back when the Wii was actually getting a ton of support or anything. Nope, not at all.
Oh, wait.
People pirated games they could have literally paid a penny for from the site's own servers.
People pirated Wii games at an almost 2:1 ratio back when people actually liked Wii and it was getting support.
Being "nice" doesn't mean jack s*** to the vast majority of pirates. You may turn a very, very small minority, but most of them couldn't care less and just want s*** for free.
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