Seriously, I have around 20 friends with one or more consoles and at least one PC, and none of them pirate games. Sure, the average age of that bunch is 35, but in my eyes this goes to show, that the prices aren't the offender - you simply get the bigger picture when the years start to pile on :)
Shortly put, with the correct morals - which I believe a lot of people have - piracy would not be a problem. And it's a bit hard to explain your kids, how dad gets new games without actually buying them :)
The "it's too expensive" argument simply doesn't hold water. I live in Denmark, where cars cost approximately 3 times as much as everwhere else in the world, but we don't see an increase in car theft because of that.
No, people pirate games, cd's and movies simply because they can get away with it from the anonymity of their living rooms. It's still theft, and games at half the cost would not decrease piracy in any major way.
It's a lack of moral that makes people steal, and a lack of intelligence that makes them justify it.
Pretty graphics or not, there is still people out there enjoying the game, without having paid for it - and that's stealing, no matter how people try and twist it to suit their own truths.
With a lot of smaller companies buckling under the pressure to create bigger and prettier games for the masses, piracy can easily become the hair, that broke the camel's back, and we are already seeing the results, with EA and Ubisoft buying up smaller companies, so they can survive the onslaught. I can certainly understand Cryteks announcement, and I support it wholeheartedly. I have been playing games for the last 30 years, and I sure as hell want to be able to enjoy a wide variety of games for the next 30 to come.
With all the demos, previews and early reviews available, it should be possible for most players to find out, exactly what they're buying, before they hand over the cash.
So the general advice is: Buy your entertainment instead of putting your own needs first and trying to justify the crime in the process.
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Obviously, some of us have the wrong friends ;)
Seriously, I have around 20 friends with one or more consoles and at least one PC, and none of them pirate games. Sure, the average age of that bunch is 35, but in my eyes this goes to show, that the prices aren't the offender - you simply get the bigger picture when the years start to pile on :)
Shortly put, with the correct morals - which I believe a lot of people have - piracy would not be a problem. And it's a bit hard to explain your kids, how dad gets new games without actually buying them :)
The "it's too expensive" argument simply doesn't hold water. I live in Denmark, where cars cost approximately 3 times as much as everwhere else in the world, but we don't see an increase in car theft because of that.
No, people pirate games, cd's and movies simply because they can get away with it from the anonymity of their living rooms. It's still theft, and games at half the cost would not decrease piracy in any major way.
It's a lack of moral that makes people steal, and a lack of intelligence that makes them justify it.
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Pretty graphics or not, there is still people out there enjoying the game, without having paid for it - and that's stealing, no matter how people try and twist it to suit their own truths.
With a lot of smaller companies buckling under the pressure to create bigger and prettier games for the masses, piracy can easily become the hair, that broke the camel's back, and we are already seeing the results, with EA and Ubisoft buying up smaller companies, so they can survive the onslaught. I can certainly understand Cryteks announcement, and I support it wholeheartedly. I have been playing games for the last 30 years, and I sure as hell want to be able to enjoy a wide variety of games for the next 30 to come.
With all the demos, previews and early reviews available, it should be possible for most players to find out, exactly what they're buying, before they hand over the cash.
So the general advice is: Buy your entertainment instead of putting your own needs first and trying to justify the crime in the process.
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