Piracy is something that is often seen as something reserved for the scourge of humanity; the lowest dregs of society. Of course a lot of the people flinging mud take part in it themselves, but that’s beside the point. My concern isn’t whether piracy is right or wrong; we all know that it’s wrong (whether you do it yourself or not), regardless of how little it affects the owner of what you’re stealing. The real question is: what’s the answer?
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I used to buy cheap games thinking I’d play them later, but I always ended up returning to my favorites. Now I skip the deals unless I know I’ll play the game soon.
This is very true, my nephews grew up on these two games and whenever I introduce them a AAA game whether old or new, it's like seeing an alien try to make sense of it and then quickly lose interest in it.
Can’t really expect a 8 year old Roblox kid to go buy resident evil 9 lol
Gaming trends are so weird to me now. Like, I’m old school and games were consumed essentially how movies were. You play through a title and look forward to the sequel or other things that came out. Now, that is so not the norm.
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Make games that are worth buying, drop the DRM and don't even thing about charging $60.
Some valid points are made. While I'm obviously not pro-piracy, you can't deny the effect it has had on various titles, some for the better, it seems.
It's such a tricky situation, but the obvious is that pricing structures are very off.
The fact is that big game makers and publishers are too behind the times, and have no creative ideas for how to market / price / protect their games in today's world. Hopefully they start to learn from some of these situations mentioned here.
Better Pricing, stable servers and ability to set up your own dedicated servers (divinity 2 allows you to do this on ps3 and of course most pc games).
going into 2011, i will be gaming on pc more than my ps3, so multiplatform on pc and exclusives on ps3.. some pc exclusives of course.
i just bought the entire valve collection for $49, the stalker series a few months ago.. you cant beat the value of steam. and i plan to buy more legit games on pc's primarily due to mods.
If more ps3 games would do mods like unreal tournament 3 that allows pc mods, burnout paradise that allow game save enhancements by uploading the ps3 save on the pc to the internet, steamworks coming to ps3 is the way to go too, just make it so mods check for legit copies. it would be worth it to get a legit copy of a game to play free mods.