frythecpuofbender
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No I don't have numbers, just experience from knowing and listening to a lot of gamers.
The 5% mod chip piracy comes from a console manufacturer, dunno where I found it. But you can bet your ass that PC piracy is rampant. As is downloading of movies, mp3s and all the other stuff.
Listen, I know it's easy, I know everyone does it and everyone feels a little guilty for it and thus the emotional reactions and cryouts when a PC gaming studio tells it like it is.
Just admit it: A couple of years ago everything was fine, you knew how to get your "free" stuff and it was cool. Those that pirated weren't exactly mainstream so the mainstream products/companies didn't care.
It has just become to easy and widespread nowadays, it is the mainstream now, filling their Ipods, notebooks and PCs with free downloads, and it affects everyone. The movie industry as well as the game industry.
As long as we are stuck with copyright laws and habits from the 20th century and companies can't adapt their business model it will matter and change the industry for the worse. Companies are going out of business because of it. Of course you say, those are the ones with shitty products nobody wanted to buy and that may be half of the truth, but the other half is: Free downloading for everyone is not working well with our chosen economic system.
And no, I'm not a console gamer, never owned one, probably never will, so that's that WaitingForNehalem.
The 5% mod chip piracy comes from a console manufacturer, dunno where I found it. But you can bet your ass that PC piracy is rampant. As is downloading of movies, mp3s and all the other stuff.
Listen, I know it's easy, I know everyone does it and everyone feels a little guilty for it and thus the emotional reactions and cryouts when a PC gaming studio tells it like it is.
Just admit it: A couple of years ago everything was fine, you knew how to get your "free" stuff and it was cool. Those that pirated weren't exactly mainstream so the mainstream products/companies didn't care.
It has just become to easy and widespread nowadays, it is the mainstream now, filling their Ipods, notebooks and PCs with free downloads, and it affects everyone. The movie industry as well as the game industry.
As long as we are stuck with copyright laws and habits from the 20th century and companies can't adapt their business model it will matter and change the industry for the worse. Companies are going out of business because of it. Of course you say, those are the ones with shitty products nobody wanted to buy and that may be half of the truth, but the other half is: Free downloading for everyone is not working well with our chosen economic system.
And no, I'm not a console gamer, never owned one, probably never will, so that's that WaitingForNehalem.