RE: Videogames piracy - Why so much hate?
November 10, 2014 at 10:42 am
(This post was last modified: November 10, 2014 at 11:00 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Hmn, solutions....
Crowd source your funding, release for free, add an ingame cash shop. You know, like all of the big new projects. I feel for the game houses, I understand their gripe...but, ultimately.....their gripe originates from their stubborness to abandon a model that no longer gives any reasonable expectation of control over IP (while simultaneously being a relatively poor model in the field of it's competition). Remember the big music industry hubbub a few years back? Uh, huh. I cannot stand it when people -choose- a shitty business model and then complain about their poor performance.
@Nap. I generally grab a game and play it for a little while before I purchase it. I can't think of a game in the last decade that I hadn't played before buying. On the other hand, alot of the time I'll grab that game, play it, and realize it's utter shit and the devs were bold faced liars. I'm sure they;d love it if I had to buy their product sight unseen, based upon their jerried cutscenes - fuck those assholes. To put this in perspective...the gamer is being asked to buy art -in a box-. I bet that would be a real winner at a gallery.
Minecraft rocked. I actually bought minecraft after having played it on a private server for months -because- of a patch that added new redstone content (for my toy computers). People buy content. Now I'm snatching up voxel titles left and right, most of them free with an ingame shop. I def fall into the "piracy generates profit" camp. Now, as to people who get a title and never pay for it - without those people...I wouldn't play. I would never spend the money myself because I don't play games to crawl into a shell of solace and privacy. Those non-paying players are the ones providing the experience that the devs are only -facilitating-, and the experience is what I am buying - I don't give a shit about their art-in-a-box (I recently tried out a couple of titles that, to my mind...are the most incredible and robust offerings in their genre - decades ahead of the curve and even ahead of the tech...but no one plays-so neither do I). I only play mp titles, and this wouldn't apply to sp titles, obviously.
Crowd source your funding, release for free, add an ingame cash shop. You know, like all of the big new projects. I feel for the game houses, I understand their gripe...but, ultimately.....their gripe originates from their stubborness to abandon a model that no longer gives any reasonable expectation of control over IP (while simultaneously being a relatively poor model in the field of it's competition). Remember the big music industry hubbub a few years back? Uh, huh. I cannot stand it when people -choose- a shitty business model and then complain about their poor performance.
@Nap. I generally grab a game and play it for a little while before I purchase it. I can't think of a game in the last decade that I hadn't played before buying. On the other hand, alot of the time I'll grab that game, play it, and realize it's utter shit and the devs were bold faced liars. I'm sure they;d love it if I had to buy their product sight unseen, based upon their jerried cutscenes - fuck those assholes. To put this in perspective...the gamer is being asked to buy art -in a box-. I bet that would be a real winner at a gallery.
Minecraft rocked. I actually bought minecraft after having played it on a private server for months -because- of a patch that added new redstone content (for my toy computers). People buy content. Now I'm snatching up voxel titles left and right, most of them free with an ingame shop. I def fall into the "piracy generates profit" camp. Now, as to people who get a title and never pay for it - without those people...I wouldn't play. I would never spend the money myself because I don't play games to crawl into a shell of solace and privacy. Those non-paying players are the ones providing the experience that the devs are only -facilitating-, and the experience is what I am buying - I don't give a shit about their art-in-a-box (I recently tried out a couple of titles that, to my mind...are the most incredible and robust offerings in their genre - decades ahead of the curve and even ahead of the tech...but no one plays-so neither do I). I only play mp titles, and this wouldn't apply to sp titles, obviously.
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