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[Achromatis]

If someone gets a PC game a week early and uploads it then a good number of people who WERE going to buy it will just pirate, this is the kind of thing thats killing PC gaming. More and more developers are going consoles because of piracy like this.

[Lil-Vinny29]

Just got confirmation that the game is now shipped and on its way home!!!!

[The_Odyssey]

...wut?

[GuldiienDAO]

Achromatis wrote...

If someone gets a PC game a week early and uploads it then a good number of people who WERE going to buy it will just pirate, this is the kind of thing thats killing PC gaming. More and more developers are going consoles because of piracy like this.

Because console piracy is impossible right?

[Karl45]

GuldiienDAO wrote...

Achromatis wrote...

If someone gets a PC game a week early and uploads it then a good number of people who WERE going to buy it will just pirate, this is the kind of thing thats killing PC gaming. More and more developers are going consoles because of piracy like this.

Because console piracy is impossible right?

No...just much much less frequent.

[ITSSEXYTIME]

Achromatis wrote...

If someone gets a PC game a week early and uploads it then a good number of people who WERE going to buy it will just pirate, this is the kind of thing thats killing PC gaming. More and more developers are going consoles because of piracy like this.

You're laughably wrong.


I highly doubt anyone decides not to buy a game just because the download is up 2 days early.  Sure, they may aquire it early but they'll still buy it if they were going to.


Now, there's plenty of people who will download it and never had the intention of purchasing it but that is a whole other story.

[Sotaklas]

Lil-Vinny29 wrote...

Just got confirmation that the game is now shipped and on its way home!!!!

damm i want 2!!!!!!!!!!  pffff <_< i will have 2 wait until nov 6 damm europe.......

[Joel171]

4 days! (almost) I'm bothering the crap out of my wife. She threatened to slap me if I didn't calm down. So I went to my room and started reading the forums.

Huh. That didn't sound quite so pathetic in my head. <_<

Modifié par Joel171, 30 octobre 2009 - 02:34 .

[Brother Jayne]

gossipgirl wrote...

Alot of small specialized game stores that are not a franchise tend to sell the game before the official date. I remember such a case on a guy from germany who bought his game one day before it even came out in the US, which means he got it 4 days before he should have been.

Overall it doesn't matter and people are just jealous that someone gets a game before they do. And it has nothing to really do with piracy either since they probably get it from game store employees who often take a display copy home so they can play as soon as they get the game in.

Are you serious?
Day zero piracy is the KEY killer to sales demographics, and it only happens if people can get their filthy mitts on the materials pre-release.

[Brother Jayne]

ITSSEXYTIME wrote...

Achromatis wrote...

If someone gets a PC game a week early and uploads it then a good number of people who WERE going to buy it will just pirate, this is the kind of thing thats killing PC gaming. More and more developers are going consoles because of piracy like this.

You're laughably wrong.


I highly doubt anyone decides not to buy a game just because the download is up 2 days early.  Sure, they may aquire it early but they'll still buy it if they were going to.


Now, there's plenty of people who will download it and never had the intention of purchasing it but that is a whole other story.

SHUT UP.
Seriously.
Look at the statistics.
Example: I don't know the games name off the top of my head, but: A publisher leaked a specific pre release variant, with a rather glaring bug. This bug was resolved, and the game realeased.

Guess what?
4 out of 5 (FOUR OUT OF FIVE) support requests for the game in the following month were in relation to SAID GLARING FIXED BUG.

Day zero piracy DESTROYS game sales.

[Habnor - God of Whine]

I knew it had to be on the street once they announced pre-order.. nothing can be hidden now

[pewbz]

Brother Jayne wrote...

ITSSEXYTIME wrote...

Achromatis wrote...

If someone gets a PC game a week early and uploads it then a good number of people who WERE going to buy it will just pirate, this is the kind of thing thats killing PC gaming. More and more developers are going consoles because of piracy like this.

You're laughably wrong.


I highly doubt anyone decides not to buy a game just because the download is up 2 days early.  Sure, they may aquire it early but they'll still buy it if they were going to.


Now, there's plenty of people who will download it and never had the intention of purchasing it but that is a whole other story.

SHUT UP.
Seriously.
Look at the statistics.
Example: I don't know the games name off the top of my head, but: A publisher leaked a specific pre release variant, with a rather glaring bug. This bug was resolved, and the game realeased.

Guess what?
4 out of 5 (FOUR OUT OF FIVE) support requests for the game in the following month were in relation to SAID GLARING FIXED BUG.

Day zero piracy DESTROYS game sales.

You have got to take the possibility into account that there were no further significant bugs in the game.

Plus, internet-savvy pirates are probably ten times more likely to send in requests etc.


Plusplus, it's really funny to imagine you shouting the parts written in caps.

[AngelofDeth99]

Achromatis wrote...

If someone gets a PC game a week early and uploads it then a good number of people who WERE going to buy it will just pirate, this is the kind of thing thats killing PC gaming. More and more developers are going consoles because of piracy like this.

An early retail release is not piracy. Not only that, anyone that is going to pirate DA is going to pirate it. A few days early release is not going to change those people. Also, it doesn't have to be released early for a copy to be leaked. All it takes is one employee anywhere along the distribution chain for a leak to happen.

[Brother Jayne]

Alright there, WoW bay.



AS STATED:

4 out of 5 (FOUR OUT OF FIVE) support requests for the game in the following month were in relation to SAID GLARING FIXED BUG.



4 out of 5 requests were in relation to said bug. What are you unable to comprehend?



(Note: Bold is for those of you unable to read more then 4 words at a time, not that you'd read this disclaimer)

[flem1]

AngelofDeth99 wrote...

An early retail release is not piracy.

Correct.

Not only that, anyone that is going to pirate DA is going to pirate it. A few days early release is not going to change those people.

Wrong.  There's a reason Assassin's Creed 2 is coming to PC months after console.

[flem1]

GuldiienDAO wrote...

Achromatis wrote...

If someone gets a PC game a week early and uploads it then a good number of people who WERE going to buy it will just pirate, this is the kind of thing thats killing PC gaming. More and more developers are going consoles because of piracy like this.

Because console piracy is impossible right?

Another pirate apologist?  

To pirate on, say, the Xbox 360, you have to mod your hardware.  Microsoft will, sooner or later -- very likely sooner -- detect this and, without warning, zap your Live account and make the console worthless.

They tend to do this in great periodic batches, so pirates don't know what did and didn't get detected.  But it's a sucker's game.

For obvious reasons, PCs can't work this way.

[Aristorum]

I'm pretty jealous right now. Guess I'll just have to bite my nails until the 3rd like everyone else. Small game retailers never seem to be around where I am.

[LdyShayna]

Hmmm...there's no reason to believe that someone will definitely pirate the game just because they get an early copy.



It is interesting that stores are getting shipments this early. I will be checking with my local stores for sure.



However, this thread has rather degraded. Let's not debate piracy here. Also, it does seem rather cruel to most of us who do not have access to early copies. So, for those two reasons I'll go ahead and shut this one down.