Red Faction: Anal Pleasure is going to be pirated because no one is going to find it worth buying. And then once they count their lack of money, they'll just bitch about their losses being from pirates. When really it's because their products are lack luster at best. The next four years for this company is grim!

How about you make a game that people WANT TO PAY FOR BECAUSE IT'S SO AWESOME?

Seems like dumb logic to me to make a game that people would rather steal than pay for and try to stop it.

Clearly because every great game sells well, always. Way to divert the discussion into absolute nonsense Volition.

Broken statement; Vampire Rain got pirated plenty. People will steal games just because they can and quality be damned.

I think people are missing the point of the statement...

He's saying that if you make a game that is shit, that you don't get to complain about piracy because nobody was going to buy that shitty game anyhow.

People will steal game because they don't want to pay Simple as that...

I'd say people are probably even more willing to pirate crappy games. My brother's friend pirates games, but he usually does it to mediocre or crappy games he wants to try out, he spends his money on good games.

If I ever pirated games (which I wouldn't) I would probably do the same. I'd only pirate games that I wanted to try, but didn't think I'd beat it

Devlopers should make games worth playing before figuring out how to secure the game? Theyre so crazy. Developers need to integrate DRM into gameplay!

"because, you know, people only steal stuff that's not valuable to them."

Exactly. In general, people are willing to pay for stuff that they think is worth the money. Therefor, if you make a game that people think is worth the money, people will pay for it. If they make a game that sells for $60 but I only value it at $10 then I'm more likely to pirate it, not pay for it. So instead of trying to make a game that people think is worth less than what you are asking (and thus turn to piracy), make a game that is worth what you are asking. How is that a hard concept for you to understand?

Good, but I hope they try to make a game worth purchasing too. :)

Funny how they talk about crime while they develop a game about committing crime.

Why do people on the internet never understand anything that isn't outright stated? Are we that shallow as a culture?

He's saying they'd rather worry about the game's quality than how easy it'll be to pirate, which is a sentiment that only a complete troglodyte could disagree with. But he didn't just say that; he actually put a little bit of thought into his wording and made it into a wonderfully quotable bon mot.

So, of course, pirates start pouring in to yell at Jim for daring them to call a spade a spade, and the remainder of the Angry Internet Men react vitriolically, either because they don't immediately understand the point of the quote, or because inarticulate rage is their default reaction to everything now.

Oy.

Oh, and to the guy who's wondering why the picture looks so weird, with everyone's hair flying in different directions and shit? Saints Row is, essentially, the Crank of games. It is about impossibly attractive people and impossibly ugly people acting like caricatures and doing things that a Saturday morning cartoon's writers would reject as being "too unbelievable," usually involving things going boom and bang and splat and rat-a-tat. To paraphrase Roger Ebert, it is the kind of game you want to describe using all caps and four exclamation points. Now, you either think that is Beautiful, or you think it is Awful. Judging from your comment, I predict you would come down in the latter camp, in which case, Rockstar's games are the ones you want.

For myself, I love both, and don't understand why some people think we're Not Allowed to have both. But that is a whole other argument.

@maaax: because if I can get something I value at $60 for free why the hell should I pay for it? I can spend that $60 on something else and in the end have $120 of stuff.

They are saying they want to give people an incentive to give a shit. We don't operate on "In General", that's just silly.

Bought the second one for 5 bucks, loved it, 100+ hours on it. Buying this one day one for full 50 bucks.

"@maaax: because if I can get something I value at $60 for free why the hell should I pay for it? I can spend that $60 on something else and in the end have $120 of stuff.

They are saying they want to give people an incentive to give a shit. We don't operate on "In General", that's just silly."

Because you believe in rewarding people for their effort like most people. Good luck with life, buddy.

Yeah, I think that's actually pretty damn stupid.

Someone has balls to talk.

Power to you Volition. Power to you.

I just have one question: WTF is going on in the header?

Guess they won't have to worry about piracy if that's the case. Huzzah!

on pc that is
since there is nothing preventing the playing of pirated games online while keeping the ability to play legit games online on console.

Optimization issues aside on the PC port, SR2 was epic amounts of fun. Paid $40 bucks on Steam and never regretted it UNTIL... they NEVER released the DLC for PC.

I have liked Volition for a while, and this statment just makes me feel better. BUT FOR THE LOVE OF GOD IF YOU RELEASE DLC ON THE CONSOLES ONLY I WILL CUT SOMEONE. That was a dick move. I would have PAID you for the DLC that was on consoles for free.

Freespace 3 would be worth stealing, Volition. FYI.

My opinion of volition just skyrocketed. I'm sure that people will roll their eyes at this reference but South Park hit the nail on the head in regards to piracy in the episode the boys crate their band named "moop". However, while I'm not here to judge those who do not(to each his own), I think game piracy is much more tricky then music piracy.I can understand pirating crap like Mindjack but games like Fallout 3,Dead Space 1 & 2, and many others deserve the success, and game sales for busting their asses!