It seems like whenever we talk PC gaming, piracy always enters into the conversation. There’s good reason for that according to id Software CEO Todd Hollenshead in an interview with gamesindustry.biz. According to Hollenshead, hardware manufacturers are perfectly fine with piracy because of the consumer’s ability to download whatever game they want and utilize it with new hardware that they buy.
I think that there's been this dirty little secret among hardware manufacturers, which is that the perception of free content - even if you're supposed to pay for it on PCs - is some sort hidden benefit that you get when you buy a PC, like a right to download music for free or a right to download pirated movies and games.
Hollenshead then goes on to point out that he doesn’t believe this to be a “conspiracy,” but likens it to an “expected benefit” from people buying new PCs. I’m not quite sure if I buy what Hollenshead is selling in this statement. Whenever I buy a new Macintosh I’m not thinking illegal copies of Diablo II or Nerverwinter Nights. Also, I haven’t exactly noticed any nefarious hardware ads that hint at what Hollenshead is saying.
What do you guys think? When you guys buy a new computer, do you instantly expect to download bigger and better pirated games? Did you buy a new computer to pirate a game like Crysis?
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7:13 AM on 08.21.2008
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So... sort of?
But for games in general... no, i dont make computers, for myself and friends, to pirate games. I make them to run whatever game (or any application, for that matter) nice and smoothly. It doesnt matter how we get our hands on the it... thats up to us, not the hardware.
Yes, yes I did.
If it wasn't for the ability to pirate games, I would just stick to my consoles... all the power at a quarter of the price and hassel. But free? Can't argue with that, even with a morality... :P
And of COURSE he's right. Though he's leaving out the part the implicates himself. Part of the reason that people feel that they have a "right" to pirate these games is because the hardware required to run them is so fucking expensive. Like buying a mac, only you get decent video hardware and plenty of RAM.
What if your game isn't that great? Or people really just don't care about it as much as the game press does? I mean I was never excited about Crysis, and when it came out I was never going to buy it, but I DL it to try it out, hated it, and got rid of it.
But to answer your question, I update my computer every 6 months or so regardless of whats coming out... its a hobby.
Right.... just because you CAN do something with a product, doesn't mean that people are buying it for that purpose. Responsibility lies with the individual, not the products he uses to commit those acts.
there is tons of pirate photoshop for macs.
and people are pirating the mac OS out the ass because Apple made there macs PC's (and makes people think they are macs by adding there own lame OS and using parts for PC.)
The mac Os no runs on X86 based CPU's in PC now you can get a pirated hacked version of the MAC os that you can dual boot and run mac crap on your PC, if you must.
IF/when macs get anything worth anything Pirates will work at putting out and cracking mac software.
Games developers are like all those people who blame video games for societies ills - always someone elses fault.