Infinity Ward may know all about modern warfare, but that seems to be all it understands about the world we live in. Showing his naivity, a company rep admitted that PC piracy left Infinity Ward "blown away," in a post titled: "They wonder why people don't make PC games anymore."
"... We pulled some disturbing numbers this past week about the amount of PC players currently playing multiplayer (which was fantastic) ...
... What wasn't fantastic was the percentage of those numbers who were playing on stolen copies of the game on stolen / cracked CD keys of pirated copies (and that was only people playing online) ...
... It blows me away at the amount of people willing to steal games (or anything) simply because it's not physical or it's on the safety of the internet to do."
While I sympathize with Infinity Ward, it's hardly surprising that this would happen. Piracy is as popular as sweets, and it's hardly shocking to contemplate the idea that if a person can get something for free, they will do. Expecting customers to feel sorry for a faceless corporation is like expecting George Lucas to understand the backstory for his own franchise, it just doesn't happen.
Besides which, as soon as games in the United Kingdom don't cost twice as much as they should, I'll start to find piracy a little more outrageous.
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1:24 PM on 01.15.2008
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the only thing thats better than something thats awesome, is something thats awesome thats free.
i.e. paying for sex. awesome. getting laid without coming out of my pocket, awesomER.
Shame...
"They should feel special people wanna play so bad."
It's really more of a, "they don't want to play it bad enough that they'd be willing to be normal human beings and pay for the shit."
and these are the hands we're given ~
So take the small community that consists of the PC gamers and then have a fraction of them not actually buying the game and that hurts the PC market pretty badly IMO.
So I've heard.
Surely this is easy enough to implement.
That said, I don't see why anyone is shocked, sure everything has its fair share of pirates but its so much easier on a PC, on a PC all you need is a torrent of the game and a program to crack it, both of which pop up within days or at most a week of a game being out.
@Wonky, I'm sure they've thought about it, but imagine the costs of making something like that, and then watch it get hacked within weeks of it being out, if people want to play their games for free, they will and nobody will stop them, all the ridiculous security measures do is fuck over actual consumers instead of pirates.
When its easier to pirate your game then legally buy it, there is something wrong.
On the other hand, PC gamers can rally around a title, look at the Witcher, it went up against the much hyped Crysis and the established franchise in Unreal Tournament III and it trounced both of them in sales.
The Crytek engine is horribly inefficient and requires the likes of the Hal9000 to run it, and UT3, well lets just say pandering to console players and the casual PC gamer have made it suck more with every iteration after the first UT in 1999. (Which was awesome for the record)
Lol.
Nice picture, Jim.
If they're shocked now, they should come to the mall where I usually shop for my games and electronic needs, they'll be gathering their jaws after they step inside.
Am I the only one here who has pirated a game or to? ...and cocks.
Now about the Steam hack...
Now we have a deal, for that money i will buy the fucking game.
Yes people, we all do maths here, thank you, now when you admit there is a market down here in latin america and I dont have to see a nintendo ds game for 90 dollars anymore in a shitty store I will buy the games for something like a day of work. Not a whole month of it.
O, internet,
why doth thee tempt mine own eyes
with corrupted, stolen software
but hark! i hear a voice on yonder...
the voice of.... common sense.
why pay for something, when you can steal it?
-End of act I-
PC software today is pretty much like Amiga software 15 years ago. I *had* to get cracked versions just to get the damn things to work, because of the broken copy protection schemes and unverified floppy discs. I still bought the games, though.
Who let all those words loose on the internet? They're clogging the pirate tubes!
Steam FTW. Since it came out I actually buy pc games with money.