The majority of game studios will tell you one of the biggest problems facing the PC market at current is piracy. Cascade-Gaming therefore is conducting a survey which will get input from pirates on why they pirate and how well they understand the issue. The survey results will be made public and then they shall shall give the results to game studios.
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
Spiders: "We're going to cut straight to the chase so you're not left wondering: After a long period without clear answers, we have received confirmation that Spiders is being liquidated.
What does it mean? This means the company as a whole no longer exists. We'll cease our functions immediately. The planned DLC will release via Nacon, and then-- well, that's it.
We're sorry that it's come to this and would like to thank each and every one of you for your support over the years.
If you have any questions or run into issues with your games, please contact Nacon directly as we'll no longer be able to reply."
Unsure a noname website can make much of a difference, but for what it's worth, it could be a good idea to take the survey =)
I must admit to download a few pc games in my time but overall i think it helps companies sell more games.. For example i like my FPS and download (well used to anyway) all the latest games, the majority of them i enjoyed so much i purchased them so i could play them online. However there are a few games that are just too bad to buy and its these that im pleased i downloaded first. Ive now converted to console gaming because of all these DRM & similar infected games that either dont work or currupt windows in some way. The way forward i see is to make games cheaper and remove the copyprotection crap and just use the online cd key and ID login. That way they can still keep an eye on whats going on without inflicting damage.
Games aren't worth the money, hence piracy.
In the UK we have to pay the equivalent of about 90$ for a brand new game from a store. Why should hand over that much money for something that if it's not complete crap will most likely give me 5-8 hours of entertainment. Totally unreasonable, especially when your a student and can barely afford games anyway.
Are pirates really going to respond truthfully to a piracy survey?
the reason i pirated back then is because theirs no way to rent a pc game. companies are really getting good at marketing crap games and buying pc games can really get expansive. most of all my games i rented then bought. pc gaming needs to trust customers a lot more to get out of this miss. i dont pirate no more but i also dont buy pc games with out a demo. plus to make it worse some times pc games are release in so glitchy and broken conditions its a complete rip off. games like stalker clear sky and mercs2 r just not doing there justice.