Fuck Fork Parker.

In his ass.

Because he made a kickass game.

That video deserve an academy award for MOAR EPIC MUSIC!!!!

In b4 Jim haters' complaints about Jim beating an already dead horse by bringing up the piracy issue again.

fcuk yes croteam

ubisoft problem is actitude towards pc gaming. Ports are ok, but pc´s can handle better graphics than consoles... of course that means investing more.
I really dont think ubisoft has quality products on pc, they are doing everything they can to enrage customers, remember from dust.

I didn't buy Serious Sam, but this made me rethink to buy it. Croteam is a awesome company and should be one of the role models that we have on the PC counterpart.

"While being good doesn't guarantee that your game won't get stolen..."

While I agree with you to some extent, I think you're missing the point here. It's not that good games prevent piracy. It's that good games make money.. regardless of piracy.

That's the tale of the PC. You can make truckloads.. even if you're getting pirated repeatedly.

7 days before Skyrim was released on PC , 27 000 people were downloading game from just one torr*ent site. Fact! Enough said. People, deal with it... Master race my arse.

It took damn near a decade for the music industry to get with the picture, and the music industry is exponentially more open than gaming is. Gaming companies have always enjoyed an amount of control over their product, if for no other reason than because there is just nowhere else for a gamer to turn to if they're dissatisfied (relatively speaking), and this allowed them to profit immensely.

Now they've lost that control and know no other way to deal with it than to tighten what control they have left. I wonder how much more of this ridiculousness gaming will have to endure before that mentality gives way to innovation.

That's funny, most of the people complaining only release games I wouldn't even bother to PIRATE

@The Nakedest

Actually it's pretty easy. It's a matter of downloading, dragging and dropping a file and running. This applies to the old games that don't have any kind of DRM, but I think those are easy to pirate too.

Now the issue is that if you are not willing to pay for a modern game, why should you bother torrenting it? It will suck anyway.

@DarkCult

So for a change, we actually see positive news about the PC market... and you posted that comment.

The first line shoved it in your face that it was about PC but you stayed here to post a comment about how much you hate X and Y because of what 27 thousand people did. 27k isn't 95% of the total Skyrim players, as far as I am concerned.

And FYI, console piracy exists. 100% of your games were developed in computers. All your arguments are invalid.

I've paid for quite a few pc games this year. Only the awesome ones :)

This guy has the right idea about combating piracy. To stop it you shouldn't impose sanctions on players (drm, long ass codes ect.) you REWARD them for buying your game. If the player is getting something awesome with the game, or if the game is good itself, people are more likely to buy it
Stop punishing players, start rewarding them

I wanna marry that guy.

I didn't mean to sound combative, Jim. Like I said, I think you're generally right here.

oh my this is disgraceful, piracy is killing the pc market!!!

oh wait, the developer is not complaining about piracy? why aren't there 200 angry anti pirate comments here?

That Fork Parker trailer was amazing.

To me PC gaming has a few issues to nail out, but could be seriously profitable and somewhat less piratey if publishers/developers take Fork's words to heart.

One thing really is the distribution: Steam works great, D2D works too (not as good as steam, but I've bought from them enough to say I like their sales and their service), Good Old Games is an amazing service too. These places make you want to come back to them, not just the games they happen to sell. Thats a pretty big thing, and way better then when you could go down to Babbages back in the 90's and pay $40 for a game with no extra care given to your purchase. The added extras or sales Steam gives you are amazing, and its no wonder they're on top of the PC distribution game.

Second, PC gaming has a lot of shovelware: Honestly, you go into a place like Best Buy that might still sell PC stuff and for every Skyrim you'll see 20 "classic games" compilations. Even the really great Popcap stuff comes off looking like shovelware, specially due to its packaging and proximity to the shovelware. It weighs everything down for PC gaming, much like it did for the Wii -Only that its been happening since THE BEGINNING OF TIME! (just like piracy -if anything, it could be said shovelware invented Piracy) Unless you absolutely know what your buying, its a pain in the ass to shift through all that for the gems. Developers have to make great games, but retailers also have to help out and make those great games known to customers, or else your just saturating an over-saturated market.

Third, like Fork said, games need to be awesome: This kinda goes with point 1 & 2 but it really needs its own spot. Awesome games do sell, so subpar or ported PC games kind of need to quit the BS and be awesome.. but its also finding the awesome games in that sea of suck that becomes the issue -Steam and other services makes that really simple, and for great prices, plus they weed out all the crap and get your right into those great games.

Fourth, and not mentioned really any where in this, awesome games need to work out of the box: I know hardware/software differences are the main cause, and it takes A LOT to get them to work right away because of this, but if more games worked out of the box then people would jump into PC gaming head first. And that's kinda the thing that -at least- Steam and Good Old Games tries to do; They try to sell you games in a way they're going to work right out of the gate -and because of that, people flock to them. It strips away the intimidation factor AND it makes paying $30-$40 (or less) on a game worth it when you know the game will actually work without hours of stress. Thats a huge thing to people. And the master race would lose nothing if more games came out that way, because they'd surely be able to mess with them and make them look/play even better. It'd be Win/Win.

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While Ubisoft developers cry about 95% piracy rates, games like Skyrim and Serious Sam 3 are raking in the dubloons from PC gamers.
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I suppose it's a case of the glass being half empty/full.

Im awesome, quick somebody pay me!