StealThisSheen posted...
Hey, Vlado. Where did I say that? Seriously, tell me where.
I'm debating with people like Yo on Steam's actual impact on piracy, and whether it's negligible or not. Nowhere did I actually give a stance on piracy itself.
But you only see what you want to, right?
Some journalist you are.
If someone can't see you're HEAVILY anti-piracy from your comments so far... Well...
This pretty much. There are "less wrong" answers, but all of them are wrong.
Those who said "Just let the pirates do what they want" are pretty much excusing crime.
xfd, please do explain how they're all wrong. Major XFD at the last sentence, as one, piracy isn't a crime any more than jaywalking is and two, voting that is not excusing piracy in any way.
Who, SEP? He's saying that corporations acting nicely doesn't matter to pirate because they're taking their s*** for free regardless. He never said anything about the pirates being evil.
Unless you believe that the pirates are evil because they want to take things for free.
In which case, you just shut down every argument you've ever made on the subject.
Boom.
Except I just laughed at that belief. But sure, "boom".
Seeing as I was working in the game industry at the time...PC gaming was in a really rough spot. For instance, Call of Duty 4 had a 90% piracy rate. If you looked at NPD data from the time for PC, literally nothing put up remotely interesting numbers except World of Warcraft and the occasional Sims expansion; other games almost never broke 100k in a month, and certainly wouldn't come close to breaking the million mark (which console games did on a pretty regular basis). All of the old WRPG makers died out or moved primarily to console. Shooters, even if they were released on PC, usually had a console version too.
Hmm... Let's look at PSP numbers, for instance. And that thing is FAR from dead.
lol nintendo
still charging $50 for amazing games like NSMBWii and Mario Kart Wii
going to be hilarious watching the U fall flat on its face even worse than the 3DS did
^_^
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