DamnLag: Piracy as a whole has been a growing cancer in the gaming industry with each generation with more and more people finding ways to download and play games on their consoles and handhelds, but this cancer is posing a serious threat to the PC platform more than anything.
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."
games worth buying will sell regardless of piracy
Yup, why would a dev make a game on PC if it is going to get pirated? If PC gamers want games on PC then they need to help fight piracy. Xbox 360 is quickly turning into a PC where games are pirated. I have talked to soo many poeple who say I pirated this or pirated that. and they are not afraid to say it.
The wii is hopeless when fighting piracy even when nintendo has an update it is never mandatory even when it blocks piracy like homebrew channel. Until nintendo makes updates against piracy mandatory there will still be a lot of hackers and pirates.
NO SH!T
Ohhhhh god another piracy article these are getting as bad as "the PC is dead I tell you". The problem isn't piracy the problem is software developers are not making games PC gamers are interested in.
I don't pirate games, I have a reasonable PC (quad with GTX260) and I very rarely buy full priced games because they are just not worth it these days. The article uses Street fighter as an example, I bought that for £12 got half an hour out of it and thought it was a pile of crap and uninstalled it.
Now I am not saying street fighter is crap I am sure it is an excellent "beat em up" but PC gamers like me do not find that kind of game interesting. Just like if I released "Advanced Air Traffic Simulator" on the xbox or PS3 I bet console gamers wouldn't find that interesting either.
Developers are just not providing what PC gamers want so we end up not buying their products or wait till their products are at a price that we feel is reasonable. This is naturally before you take into account all the drm bull and shady practices that developers pull.
The software industry is digging it's own grave as far as I am concerned. A good example is Mafia 2. I loved the first Mafia, bought it day 1 when it came out on the PC all them years ago. I was primed to buy Mafia 2 on release but now with the exclusive content bull and DLC I have decided the game no longer warrants a full price and I will pick it up when it is on sale. No doubt my lost sale will be attributed to piracy as well even though I have no intention of pirating the game.
PC pirating is a simple problem with a simple solution.
In my opinion there are different type’s of pirates.
Unsure Pirates- these pirates want to be 100% sure if the game is worth the cash. If the game is awesome, then they will buy it.
Pissed off Pirates- these pirates are pissed at the company because that new DRM was made to be broke, AKA Spore syndrome……….
Poor Pirates- these pirates can’t afford their PC or internet connection, much less a new game coming out every week. If the developers could or would make their game segmented (broken into pieces) and customers allowed to buy parts of the game, poor people would not pirate, IMHO.
Asshole Pirates- not to be confused with butt pirates. These pirates will pirate anything and everything because they want to and they can. If the game was AAA and $1.00, they would still pirate it, just because.
The solution is to make a short version of the game, sell it cheap. Each section after is X amount that eventually will create a full version. Make it available at launch, not after when players are waiting.