[QUOTE="MrGeezer"] For all the complaining gamers do about how this or that game sucks and we're not going to buy it, those same gamers go right out and pirate it. Nibroc420Well yeah, that's how they know the game sucks. Resulting in them not playing the game, or spending any money to support that developer. Reviews have become so paid off, some people simply pirate. If they like the game, they buy it. If they encounter a **** game, they obviously stop playing the game they dont like, and have no intention of supporting a company who makes those games. I already addressed this. People pirate games for all sorts of reasons, so it's pretty hard to determine WHY it's being pirated. Here's a link, though. http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/gaming.gadgets/09/09/video.game.piracy/#fbid=0UUOvAM0_lo&wom=false I don't know if those numbers for Modern Warfare 2 are accurate. But assuming that they are, that's nearly 12 million copies sold, and more than 4 million copies pirated. That's about a 25% piracy rate. That's f***ing bad. You can say all you want that it was only pirated so much because it sucks, but it was also supposedly the best selling game of the year, selling a whopping 12 million copies. Regardless of whether or not YOU think the Call of Duty games suck, people apparently liked it enough for it to sell almost 12 million units. So...what the hell is Activision supposed to make of this? Do the 4 million units pirated tell Activision that they need to do something different, or do the nearly 12 million sales indicate that people REALLY like the games and that they're doing a good job of satisfying their user base? By what metric is Activision supposed to use to calculate how much they are f***ing up? A 25% piracy rate seems really bad, but those games also CONTINUALLY sell like crazy. By one standard, people apparently HATE that game (and apparently the franchise at large) since nearly 25% of the copies in circulation are pirated. By a completely different standard, nearly 12 million people bought the game, which is a goal which most developers and publishers couldn't ever dream of attaining. So...bad game or good? Do those 4 million pirated copies indicate that the game needs to be fundamentally changed? Or do those nearly 12 million sold copies indicate that Activision is doing a very good job appealing to their fanbase, and that the people piratinbg the games in order to make a statement are merely being self-entitled assbags? If pirating is a valid statement that developers and publishers need to release better content, then what exactly is the metric for determining what is good and what is bad?
Piracy - your views?
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