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| Thread ID: 104892 | 2009-11-11 23:19:00 | Beware if you're using a modded Xbox | Speedy Gonzales (78) | Press F1 |
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| 829299 | 2009-11-12 11:19:00 | Meanwhile the publishers like the record companies are taking most of the profit, the guys who actually developed the game or wrote the music don't get much at all, and then have the nerve to tell you when you pirate a CD you are ripping off the artist. WRONG. I am ripping off the record label, who was ripping off the artist long before I bought a CD burner. And then they try to justify that by telling you how much it cost for the latest anti-piracy idea. Funny thing though, I haven't seen anything that couldn't be pirated somehow. So I have 2 ideas: 1) STOP COPY PROTECTING EVERYTHING. It doesn't work and you waste money inventing new ways to annoy the hell out of people who actually bought the game. 2) Bring prices down, how about all games $25? I know they would see a substantial increase in sales. One of the ways to do this is to do (1) as outlined above. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 829300 | 2009-11-12 11:32:00 | Have you got any idea how much some developers get paid? Also, studios only make money from artists that sell. For every CD that does well the studio has backed a fair amount that don't. It's an expensive industry and that's why you pay lots of money for it. An artist gets paid a stipend per CD sold. Depending on contracts it may only be $2 per CD, but that's still money you're depriving from the artist. There's no getting around that. As far as I'm concerned, for the amount of hours I get out of most of the games I play, they're well worth it. More economical per hour played than books or movies by far. As for the $25 per game. If it worked, they'd be doing it by now. There are these things called MBAs and, for the most part, all of the senior management in these corporations have them. |
Thebananamonkey (7741) | ||
| 829301 | 2009-11-12 17:25:00 | The problem I find with buying most of the more expensive games is that they often turn out to be duds, or boring and not very exciting to play. Can I get my money back or at least some of it? No way. I've often got more entertainment out of a free online game than a lot of the so called big budget games. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 829302 | 2009-11-12 20:18:00 | Have you got any idea how much some developers get paid? Also, studios only make money from artists that sell. For every CD that does well the studio has backed a fair amount that don't. It's an expensive industry and that's why you pay lots of money for it. An artist gets paid a stipend per CD sold. Depending on contracts it may only be $2 per CD, but that's still money you're depriving from the artist. There's no getting around that. As far as I'm concerned, for the amount of hours I get out of most of the games I play, they're well worth it. More economical per hour played than books or movies by far. As for the $25 per game. If it worked, they'd be doing it by now. There are these things called MBAs and, for the most part, all of the senior management in these corporations have them. You are 100% correct, but there is an assumption everything pirated would have been brought. I have NP buying the odd game when its good, usually is good value. There is the old gem, if you are a developer and someone would NEVER buy your game as they are on 12 bucks an hour with a family to feed, would you prefer they pirate your game and enjoy it or never know anything about it? |
Battleneter2 (9361) | ||
| 829303 | 2009-11-12 20:32:00 | expensive games often turn out to be duds, or boring and not very exciting to play. Which is why you download the playable demo first. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 829304 | 2009-11-12 20:36:00 | if games were sold for $25 we wouldn't see any of the large budget games such as fallout, call of duty and gears for war as there would be no incentive with profit margins being so low. It is steeling and good job to whoever this happens to. downloading pirated games is no different than walking into a shop and stuffing them down your pants. If i was Microsoft i wouldn't be banning these people id trace their address and send the lawyers knocking and charge these teenage nerds for everything there got. Oh and as for trying a game before you buy it why not rent it. thats cheap and not illegal. |
viperviperviper006 (15202) | ||
| 829305 | 2009-11-12 20:38:00 | The only problem I have is. I've always thought some of the modded consoles have great features so I think its a bit suck if you get locked out just for modding your xbox particularly if your not pirating games. I've never personally put a mod chip on any of the consoles I've owned however with pc games I quite like the no cd patches so you dont have to listen to the DVD drive vibrate while your playing a game you legally own. |
razzarphenix (2626) | ||
| 829306 | 2009-11-12 20:42:00 | This piracy thing and the developers moaning about it and how it will ruin them has been going on as long as I have had computers (1985) and before. Do we still have developers ? yes do we still have pirates ? yes. :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 829307 | 2009-11-12 21:08:00 | if games were sold for $25 we wouldn't see any of the large budget games such as fallout, call of duty and gears for war as there would be no incentive with profit margins being so low. It is steeling and good job to whoever this happens to. downloading pirated games is no different than walking into a shop and stuffing them down your pants. If i was Microsoft i wouldn't be banning these people id trace their address and send the lawyers knocking and charge these teenage nerds for everything there got. Oh and as for trying a game before you buy it why not rent it. thats cheap and not illegal. You have a very old fashion closed mind view on this issue, as for teenage nerds? I have known many people well into there 30's and 40's that buy games and also pirate, OH and have known a few cops for the record. Piracy is no where near as damaging as the hyterical media often report. If someone would have never purchased the product for what ever reason and pirate it, the loss to the industry is $0. |
Battleneter2 (9361) | ||
| 829308 | 2009-11-13 05:50:00 | [QUOTE=Battleneter2;839028]You have a very old fashion closed mind view on this issue, as for teenage nerds? I have known many people well into there 30's and 40's that buy games and also pirate, OH and have known a few cops for the record . then they are 30, 40 year old and cop nerds . I say nerds because i don't believe a casual user would go to such lengths to pirate games . And with your thoughts about the loss of income perhaps we should all start stealing from the shops things that we were not going to buy anyway . after all if we didn't steal it we wouldn't buy it so the makers still would make no money . The fact of the matter is it is stealing and thieves contribute nothing to society and so should be dealt to . Now to those who have been banned get of the couch and into sport, something you can talk to your family and friends with pride about whle getting healthier . . Moral of Post: Play sport (gaming isn't a sport) |
viperviperviper006 (15202) | ||
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