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Piracy not the drama it is made out to be

Posted on Friday, 5 September 2008 by daffeh, source: Edge-Online

Over at Edge Online they have an interesting read up about the seriousness of PC gaming piracy.
With Crytek's Cevat Yerli recently putting the piracy ratio to 1:15 in favor of illegal copies, Crytek moving away from the PC platform and companies blaming piracy for lesser sales, shutting down devs, harassing buyers or releasing the cool stuff after the release, things were heating up in game-dev land.

Penumbra: Black Plague developer Tom Jubert states that Crytek has been a bit overdramatic and he backs up his claim with GameShadow Metric statistics.

What that means is I can tell you the ratio of legal vs illegal Crysis installs in GameShadow's UK customer base is more like 7:3, while in the US it's closer to 5:1 - a far less bleak scenario.

He finishes up by making a claim some other have made before which is:

In short, rampant piracy is no longer the catch-all excuse it's often employed as.

I tend to agree with the man, Crysis just isn't THAT good... make a good game and people will buy it.

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the fact that indie game Sins of a Solar Empire sold over 500.000 copies with absolutely no copy protection also tends to show piracy isn't the big issue some devs/pubs want to make it

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Posted on 10:29, September 05th 2008

Anonymous

Also, Crytek are going by stats that are seriously flawed just to make headlines and point fingers at piracy. Their lies arent helping things like they think.

They fail to tell you that of all the downloads of the patches, alot of them are gaming sites downloading them for their sites, or repeat downloads due to reinstalls.

How many ppl go to official sites for patches anyways? I go to Filefront, Fileplanet or here at Fragland.

Also, piracy is very real. No doubt about it. Ppl download SP games. They buy MP games. Devs are still making games like its the late 90's. Like the music industry, they haven't evolved.

Valve has it down. You have to log in to play. Their piracy ratio is FAR lower. Battlefield 2 & 2142. Have to log in. Low piracy rate. Call of Duty 4. No login. High piracy. If you were going on vacation, would you leave the door open? If your house got robbed cause you left the door open, would it not be your fault?

Wake up devs. PC's are unique. Save money on copy protection. It doesn't work. Online registration (marrying your cd key to an online account), actually works.

Also, Crytek are going by stats that are seriously flawed just to make headlines and point fingers at piracy. Their lies arent helping things like they think. They fail to tell you that of all the downloads of the patches, alot of them are gaming sites downloading them for their sites, or repeat downloads due to reinstalls. How many ppl go to official sites for patches anyways? I go to Filefront, Fileplanet or here at Fragland. Also, piracy is very real. No doubt about it. Ppl download SP games. They buy MP games. Devs are still making games like its the late 90's. Like the music industry, they haven't evolved. Valve has it down. You have to log in to play. Their piracy ratio is FAR lower. Battlefield 2 & 2142. Have to log in. Low piracy rate. Call of Duty 4. No login. High piracy. If you were going on vacation, would you leave the door open? If your house got robbed cause you left the door open, would it not be your fault? Wake up devs. PC's are unique. Save money on copy protection. It doesn't work. Online registration (marrying your cd key to an online account), actually works.

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Posted on 20:11, September 05th 2008

NINJAFISH

If you were going on vacation, would you leave the door open? If your house got robbed cause you left the door open, would it not be your fault?

While I dont really disagree with you, I've seen you make this comparison before and it really just doesn't make any sense in this situation.

[quote]If you were going on vacation, would you leave the door open? If your house got robbed cause you left the door open, would it not be your fault?[/quote] While I dont really disagree with you, I've seen you make this comparison before and it really just doesn't make any sense in this situation.

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Posted on 05:24, September 07th 2008

Anonymous

NINJAFISH:

If you were going on vacation, would you leave the door open? If your house got robbed cause you left the door open, would it not be your fault?

While I dont really disagree with you, I've seen you make this comparison before and it really just doesn't make any sense in this situation.

Quite funny that comparison was used, because it was me (although I am 'anon) that made the comparison before and it looks as if someone just stole it and used it way out of its original context O_O

[quote][b]NINJAFISH:[/b] [quote]If you were going on vacation, would you leave the door open? If your house got robbed cause you left the door open, would it not be your fault?[/quote] While I dont really disagree with you, I've seen you make this comparison before and it really just doesn't make any sense in this situation.[/quote] Quite funny that comparison was used, because it was me (although I am 'anon) that made the comparison before and it looks as if someone just stole it and used it way out of its original context O_O

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Posted on 12:17, September 07th 2008

NINJAFISH

Anonymous:

NINJAFISH:

If you were going on vacation, would you leave the door open? If your house got robbed cause you left the door open, would it not be your fault?

While I dont really disagree with you, I've seen you make this comparison before and it really just doesn't make any sense in this situation.

Quite funny that comparison was used, because it was me (although I am 'anon) that made the comparison before and it looks as if someone just stole it and used it way out of its original context O_O

Oh, I just figued it was it was you again making the comparison not someone else copying you >_>

Regardless I still don't agree with the comparison.

[quote][b]Anonymous:[/b] [quote][b]NINJAFISH:[/b] [quote]If you were going on vacation, would you leave the door open? If your house got robbed cause you left the door open, would it not be your fault?[/quote] While I dont really disagree with you, I've seen you make this comparison before and it really just doesn't make any sense in this situation.[/quote] Quite funny that comparison was used, because it was me (although I am 'anon) that made the comparison before and it looks as if someone just stole it and used it way out of its original context O_O[/quote] Oh, I just figued it was it was you again making the comparison not someone else copying you >_> Regardless I still don't agree with the comparison.

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Posted on 19:18, September 07th 2008

Anonymous

Piracy: 10% in countries that can afford a game, 90% in countries that would never be able to afford a game. Simple. Go ask a kid in China to dish out 80$ for a game, and that 10 times a year. And let's not even mention European prices. 40$ in US = 80$ in EU most of the time when it comes to game pricing.

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Posted on 11:15, September 08th 2008

Anonymous

NINJAFISH:
While I dont really disagree with you, I've seen you make this comparison before and it really just doesn't make any sense in this situation.

Well, both posts were Anon :P

Maybe I should sign back up... meh

Quite funny that comparison was used, because it was me (although I am 'anon) that made the comparison before and it looks as if someone just stole it and used it way out of its original context O_O[/quote]

Oh, I just figued it was it was you again making the comparison not someone else copying you >_>

Regardless I still don't agree with the comparison.[/quote]

[quote][b]NINJAFISH:[/b] While I dont really disagree with you, I've seen you make this comparison before and it really just doesn't make any sense in this situation.[/quote] Well, both posts were Anon :P Maybe I should sign back up... meh Quite funny that comparison was used, because it was me (although I am 'anon) that made the comparison before and it looks as if someone just stole it and used it way out of its original context O_O[/quote] Oh, I just figued it was it was you again making the comparison not someone else copying you >_> Regardless I still don't agree with the comparison.[/quote]

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Posted on 23:49, September 08th 2008