Listen up, wankers. The Podcastle is here in full force once again, featuring Jim Sterling, Atheistium, Wardrox and nerdcore community blogger Wilbo. This episode, we discuss importing and piracy, their benefits, downsides and effects.
We also spend ages talking about what arsehammers the people at Nintendo are -- but what's new there?
If you want to know what they should have called Professor Layton, how Sean Connery would sound if he was a gamer, and how the BRITISH EARTHQUAKE affected us, then you need to listen to The Podcastle right now.
Also, this episode sees our first ever contest. Listen to the show for more details, but to clarify -- record an audio sketch for Episode 8 of The Podcastle and post it in your CBlog. The best skit not only appears on the show, but its creator will win FABULOUS PRIZES! The only catch is that you cannot enter the contest if you are legible for entry into the main Dtoid contests. In other words, no Americans (this has nothing to do with the fact that we can't afford to ship stuff that far). Enjoy.
Jim Sterling serves as reviews editor for Destructoid.com, head of the Podtoid podcast, and produces a number of news stories, original features, one-of-a-kind videos. With his passionate argumentative style, controversial opinions, harsh delivery, and dedication to brutal honesty Sterling is a name that you can't help but recognize.
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8:47 AM on 03.01.2008
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If you want to properly keep up to date, we Europeans have to little choice but to import/mod.
With great games still not out or delayed endlessly (Rockband/Smash Bros/No More Heroes) etc its no wonder that people feel that they have too look to illicit way of getting their gaming needs.
Oh and with Piracy, also comes rape and looting. Both worthy hobbies.
This is brilliant, btw
Music and movies, on the otherhand, I could care less if people pirate. Sure they are going to lose money due to piracy but they overcharge the public and actors/musicians make more money than they are worth anyways.
Anyway, most of the games I have imported are for GBA and NDS, although not that much.
In the aspect of piracy, well, one can get frustrated with the time dates, especially in Europe and Australia, and I can tell that, I've been living in Norway for 7 months now and the release dates over here makes one to go into the piracy. One good example was the release of The Dracula X Chronicles, in America was in October and over here in February, that's a lot of difference.
I don't blame people who chooses to use the piracy as a medium to get the games faster, but still, it's kinda sad that many, but many does it just to get free games and not to buy them.
Well, I better shout my pie hole before this turns into a wall of text.
Again, a great episode, I really enjoyed it.
Except for Nintendo. I'm going to teach my students never to buy their products and show them how to mod their consoles when I get to teaching :P
Perfect thinking. It's not only the PC market that pirates either. I have a cousin who has 2 Xbox 360s. One for his Xbox Live account, another he never updates or lets go online. Instead, it's open-cased with a harddrive the size of Jim and has a ton of illegal games on it. Why does he do it? Cus he doesn't care about buying some of the games unless he KNOWS they're worth it. With events such as Jeff from GameSpot being canned over an honest review, it's an eye opener for some that review companies are paid off. So we can only trust our own instincts.
I'm for piracy. If BioShock were PC only, I woudln't have bought it. I would have downloaded it quicker than going to the store. I'm now cool with installing root kits and having SecuROM crap all over my games. If I finish the game and want to loan it out to my friends, I'm gonna do that. Remember in the 90s when we shared movies and music with each other? What's the harm in that? If I really enjoyed the movie/music, I'd buy it myself. Or when my friend showed me Mortal Kombat 3 (which I didn't want to buy) and let me borrow it for a month, I ended up going to the store with my saved lunch money and buying it. The problem with piracy: generic crappy slapped together games will NEVER be bought because who wants to waste money on that crap?
That was longer than expected...
Piracy will always be a double edged sword. The more people pirate games the more obnoxious game publisher will become with security features. So while I won't condemn someone for being a pirate I don't want to hear a bunch of pissing and moaning when companies become Gestapo like with DRM.
Shit this is over 200 words better throw in a Kitten for Wardrox.
They didn't even let you talk normally, but damn, it was funny to hear you talk like Connery every time they let you talk.
Jim: You're dead fucking wrong.
Smash Bros. doesn't cost any money to play online. The Pay to Play is coming out after Brawl. Brawl's already out in Japan, with free online. It'll come out soon enough in America, with free online.
And I suspect it'll come out in Europe, with free online.
If you're going to bash a company for doing something, at least know they're actually doing it, as opposed to bashing them for doing something they're not doing.
There's plenty to bash them for without making shit up.
But who suffers? The consumer (the people purchasing) or the guys downloading and never worrying about keeping all their manuals for years to call a company and ask permission to install the game they bought? DRM does nothing but bug the people who spend money. No one else is harmed by it, especially hackers who will always be one foot ahead of the piracy war race.
Really?
AHAHHAAH, ok, maybe the community feedback section will come back after all. :D
I shall make a note: Everybody is female on the internet, apart from Neonie.
Oh yes the poor paying consumer who can’t load a game onto 80 machines at once. He truly is getting the shaft while hackers and pirates dance merrily in a field with kittens. I’m being a sarcastic ass because it’s my firm belief that a large percentage of these paying customers have taken part in piracy at one point or another. The relationship between gamers and game companies is cause and affect.
At one time games came with no copy protection and people pirated the shit out of them. So game companies responded with security features which people immediately hacked around so companies responded with even more stringent security measures and the cycle never ends.
The only people who get truly screwed are the small percentage of gamers who have never pirated anything ever. This is why I don’t want to hear the pissing and moaning personally because I know a good portion of it comes from fuckers who are part of the problem.
Do you truly expect companies to not protect their intellectual property? I know it’s the cool and elite to bash on large corporations but don’t they deserve to make at least a small profit? It’s kind of hard when people pirate the shit out of your games and that doesn’t even begin to cover pirating small independent studio’s who can’t take the hit giants like EA can. There is never an easy answer when it comes to piracy and my guess is in another decade it will be a moot argument when digital distribution becomes the way of the world.
Again, the best solution is to do good games...people will buy them
pd: thats why there are music ARTISTS and thats why people in videogame medium aren't ...a music artist want to reach the people and communicate something, videogames nowdays are all about sales and bitching...
"At one time games came with no copy protection and people pirated the shit out of them."
----I love that excuse, yet, DOOM was a high selling game and you can STILL find pirated copies on the street. Don't give me that. People that are into piracy only buy games WORTH buying.
A customer wouldn't put a copy of a game on 80 different computers, idiot. The problem with your idiotic argument is that you claim that poor customers would do that but open your eyes! The people into piracy are the ones FREE of DRM!!!
The feedback section was crap.
I happen to be one of these poor gamers you claim to defend and still fell the way I do. As soon as I post this I am off to pan handle in front of a super market in an effort to afford Lost Odyssey. So while I could continue to debate this issue with you, I think the far better solution would be for us to both take our sad and tired arguments and go our separate ways.
Irishman here.
Piracy? Love it within reason.
no, you right sud america...
yo deberia ganr...YO PIRATEO COSAS!!!
The Supreme Court here did fairly rule that using mod chips to get around regional locking was a valid thing for a consumer to do, especially given the price differences between software locally and overseas, so that made things a tad easier.
With that said, when I buy a PS3 I will have no need to mod it. Region freeness will be the one thing that draws me back to Sony. I will mod my damn Dual Shock 3 with a decent d-pad if I have to, but I will get a PS3 because I'm fucking sick of Nintendo and I don't want an MS console to die out the ass on me just because I turned it on when the planets weren't aligned with the moon in the house of Aries on the day of the Solar Equinox.
Sony have effectively removed my need to pirate shit on their console. I will need to find an import store better than PlayAsia though. They still have nasty mark ups. Anyone in the US know of a decent online store that ships to SUN CANCER LAND?
Back to the cotton fields you.
Yeah the DS has a bunch of mini games, but just because it's $30 for a crossword puzzle, doesn't mean it's not stealing to play a bootleg. Nintendo's providing a service, that you can pay for and enjoy, or not purchase, no ones being lured into stealing in my opinion.
Also, I don't mean to insist on a PG13 podcast or any regulating on your guys' freedom of speech, but the first 10-15 minutes were pretty hard for me to get through, nothing about games, just everyone being as vulgar and explicit as possible. Other gaming sites' podcasts are equally informative, yet I don't have to wear headphones for fear of my wife listening in. Just a thought.
This was the first D-Toid podcast I've listened to, good job guys and lady.
Why don't you all go die in a fire. <3
Also, I was mentioned on Podcastle. Woo.
I R FAMOUS!
Also I'm suprised no one mentioned teh shot gun stuff in the last 3 seconds of the podcast LOL