Piracy is a hot button issue in the industry, with various agencies suggesting the upward trend in game piracy is responsible for billions of dollars in lost revenue. Small developers have been swindled out of their hard earned pay, and it has been used as a means to justify eggregiously overzealous bills like the Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect Intellectual Property Act.
Yet, pirates aren't all amoral scoundrels like so many would have you believe. A lot of people find their way to the high seas through relatively honest means because publishers have failed them in some capacity. Does it justify breaking the law? I'll let you decide.
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It's a step forward for Stop Killing Games.
The Callisto Protocol director thinks the solution involves the right people, the right timing, and perhaps a little bit of AI
I don't agree with that. I WISH I could agree with that. But buying habits and customer opinions prove otherwise
We've seen developers in the AAA space try new things and ideas. More often than not, the customers aren't willing to give things a chance, or not enough people buy into the project for it to grow.
Creativity works better in the indie space because the budgets, pressures, and expectations aren't the same.
it's a nice idea and it worked during the PS2/PS3-era when AAA didn't cost hundreds of millions of dollars. smaller budgets and shorter development time left room for more creativity and more risk. a game didn't need to sell 4 million+ copies to break even. things are different now.
This is the guy who bragged about crunching his staff and having them work through the night. Crunch culture has lost more talent and done more damage to the industry than any other factor. Screw him.
Gone down all these paths at some point but normally will just avoid the game these days if their not up to scratch.
Plus I need to reserve HDD space for games I actually want to play , dam Steam lol.
Well if next generation of consoles comes with this nonsense of not be able to play used games than im ditching new consoles until a hack comes out,and my PC will get the job done along my Steam account.
I pirate some games. I also buy a TON. Deal with it.
"Yet, pirates aren't all amoral scoundrels like so many would have you believe."
uh... yes, they are.