Only ungrateful bastards would do that , if a game is worth playing its worth paying
If someone was unsure , and downloaded a game illegally online to try it... fine... but if they like it they should go to the store and buy a legal copy to support the people who busted their ass making it
Illegal Video Game Downloads on the Rise: Preventable or Inevitable?
SodaHead Gaming
2011/11/14 14:00:00
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The music, movie, and television industries have been struggling to address illegal downloading for years. With music, it's gotten so bad that Chuck Klosterman recently declared "recorded music no longer has monetary value." Now BBC is reporting that the video game industry is falling victim to the download epidemic quicker than ever.
According to a study done by a research firm called Envisional, illegal video game downloads have jumped 20% in five years. Naturally, this has the industry biting its nails; some gamers argue it's not that big of a deal. They say the downloads do not necessarily indicate gamers are going to stop buying games.
Sam, a gamer who says he illegally downloads around 100 games a year, told BBC, "I buy games because I've pirated them; if I don't get to try them I never would have bothered picking them up ... I've never been fined. I've been doing this since I was 14 and I'm now 23. Games that I enjoy I purchase, ones that I don't enjoy I delete."
That seems to mirror the attitude the music industry has already begun to cater to with programs like Spotify and Turntable.fm, which allow users to listen to whole songs for free with the hopes that they'll buy it. But the programs have also changed the way artists make money, but paying the artists with ad revenue.
The gaming industry is still resisting. Andy Payne, chairman of the Association for UK Interactive Entertainment, told BBC, "Look at Fifa, Modern Warfare, Black Ops, those games people are playing all the time. That's great value ... Two hundred, 250 people sat in a studio for two years building the latest Modern Warfare 3 ... You can be playing that game every single day for a year."
According to a study done by a research firm called Envisional, illegal video game downloads have jumped 20% in five years. Naturally, this has the industry biting its nails; some gamers argue it's not that big of a deal. They say the downloads do not necessarily indicate gamers are going to stop buying games.
Sam, a gamer who says he illegally downloads around 100 games a year, told BBC, "I buy games because I've pirated them; if I don't get to try them I never would have bothered picking them up ... I've never been fined. I've been doing this since I was 14 and I'm now 23. Games that I enjoy I purchase, ones that I don't enjoy I delete."
That seems to mirror the attitude the music industry has already begun to cater to with programs like Spotify and Turntable.fm, which allow users to listen to whole songs for free with the hopes that they'll buy it. But the programs have also changed the way artists make money, but paying the artists with ad revenue.
The gaming industry is still resisting. Andy Payne, chairman of the Association for UK Interactive Entertainment, told BBC, "Look at Fifa, Modern Warfare, Black Ops, those games people are playing all the time. That's great value ... Two hundred, 250 people sat in a studio for two years building the latest Modern Warfare 3 ... You can be playing that game every single day for a year."
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Toby 2011/11/15 00:15:54
no matter what you do, no matter what Law you make, no matter how you enforce it
there will always be a group that uploads it
plus a major part is that the people who want to try to stop it dont even understand it or how it works.
so anyone here who wants to prevent it: you can't do squat, nothing you do will matter of have any effect on pirating. so just dont bother.
I've been burnt before buying crappy games and not being able to get a refund (PC), specifically the game "Wolfenstein", the follow up to the fantastic and revolutionary shooter "Return to Castle Wolefenstein" (great game) The new version of Wolfenstein was an absolute piece of garbage that ruined the franchise name.
Ever since getting screwed on Wolfenstein I will evaluate a game before I buy it and if it's worth it I'll make sure to support the developers. Example, I "evaluated" Serious Sam HD and Borderlands, and within hours of trying my "evaluation" version I bought both games. Same with Left4Dead and many other game titles.
For other online games, I will always try to participate in beta tests prior to ordering and buying the game, so I don't have to seek out an "evaluation" copy. This past weekend I participated in the "Star Wars- The Old Republic" beta, and I'm glad I did. I will not be dropping a DIME on this PoS game, let alone wasting bandwidth to download an "evaluation" copy.
Many illegal downloads yield to paying customers...
Like the generations before..
I discovered Duke 3d, Doom, and Counter Strike this way amongst many others... I bought them all because I like the code... I want to have sex with it...
i wanted to buy UT3 when it came out it costs 50 euros in free record shop while it costs 75 euros for a PS3! should u buy that?
Look at what a lot of game companies already do, they release games for free, and still make money off of it. While the people who cant afford it can still play.
I think piracy is preventable by either putting the games back on cartridge or by requiring some type of hardware key to be inserted in the console. Maybe that could be hacked or defeated but I recall games use to be on cartridges at one time... were those pirated?
I hate pirates. I don't like your lame excuse that you want to try the game before you buy it either. Go rent the thing if that's the case or look at user reviews, comments and YouTube videos but stop with the lame excuses to justify your theft. The people making these games deserve to be paid.
Yes. They were extracted from the cartridge and turned into a ROM file.
You can now play them on the PC with programs that emulate the console the games were originally on... with higher resolution, image filtering and hardware acceleration.
if ya interested try searching for emulators.
try before you buy is a good thing since people do not want to be paying £30+ on a game that they hate 15 mins in. demos are good but dont provide enough depth for someone to really get a feel for the game. having a specific full-game trail time would be the best option but this will still not be viable for PC (cracks and keygens).
Bill, you can't rent games for PC, you have to buy it or find another way to try it first. Yes, hackers/pirates are a lot smarter than you.
The same can be done for song videos...product placement...and try and maximize the distribution. The more copies there are, the more the advertising is worth.
Combine music videos with software inserts, like using Flash to present the videos with active hotspots inside the video screen.
Mix shopping with buying music, albums, and gossip sites...to make extra revenue.