Piracy has always existed, it will always exist. There will always be a workaround, and there will always be people who take advantage. Always. You know this. It's like the war on drugs, you just can't win from that angle. Prohibition never works, it never has, because at the end of the day people will do as they please, when they know the chances of individual consequences are low.
So how can you win? You can step up. You can make games people would be happy to spend their hard earned bread on. As long as you make a quality product, that always works, when people want it to work, there will always be people who buy it. They always have, and they always will. That's how you win.
We like good games, that work even when our connection is down, that are complete and thoroughly tested when they ship. We like games that we know we can install on our next computer, because we like them that much, enough to play through again 5 years from now when the online servers will probably be gone. We like knowing we own the game we just paid $50-$60 for, rather than feeling we have just rented a temporary pass to play it for awhile. Many of us fear that's the direction things are taking, that soon games may be confined to a short playable life, only enduring as long as the current platform has infrastructure actively supporting it. We hope this is not the case, and that in 10 years, retro gaming is still be a thing.
@5SI-GonePostal @Lei_11 @stefano1956 The marine AI in HL is largely smoke and mirrors. It was really impressive in 1998, and is still convincing today. Mostly it's clever scripting that makes them appear so smart, if you've played through the game enough times and on every difficulty you will eventually notice. Now Far Cry...those mercs were good.
LOL I just saw a banner ad for this game that quoted PC Gamer calling Omerta "the X-COM of organized crime". PC Gamer likely printed that, several months ago in some long forgotten preview of Omerta. Or it could have even been from the review, but actually said something like "This game tries to be the X-COM of organized crime, but falls way short. IDK, I haven't read their review...but its amazing how advertisers or anyone for that matter will quote things waaaaay out of context.
@juboner I mean c'mon man. Obama sucks and so does radical gun control, sucks almost as bad as your ability to type Engish. This, however, is one problem I doubt he's responsible for.
I gave up on the console versions of these games years ago...BUT
I recently got MW2 for PC on steam when it was only 10 bucks, thinking what the Hell...i'll try it for ten bucks. And to my hugest surprise I've actually had alot of fun with the multiplayer. CoD isn't so bad on the PC.
I'm sure MW3 and both BLOPses are very similar, but if the series continues to sell they will keep pumping them out. Why wouldn't they? They aren't innovative, but the whole FPS genre is fairly derivative and at the end of the day all of the CoD games I have played have been slick, well playing and well put together games. There are certainly worse shooters out there.
Think about it, no...go play the original, and decide if you really want a remake. If they did make a modern FFVII, what would it be like? Would they keep the now archaic core gameplay of the the original? I doubt it. Modernizing FFVII would require breaking it.
@RealFabioSooner Oreally? I'm 27 and grew up with an NES, then a Genny, my brother had an SNES. Us "20-something hipsters" are the ones who grew up in the time you speak of...so what exactly is your point?
Unrelated but relevant, its funny when people speak of the "golden age of gaming", and say there are too many bad games released these days...crappy games are not a 21st century phenomenon. For every good NES game that is still fun to play in 2012, there are at least 20 that were crap in the 80s are still crap today.
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