This is getting outta control now :-/
~Kujila
Word...Personally why would people do this, like it's only restricting the companies from getting money to make even better games >.>
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I could care less what those guys do. I'm not siding with the pirates but, come on. You would have to have a modified PS2 to run it which pretty much messes up your whole system also not many people have them and also, do you really think thats going to put a damper in sales? It never seems to. Vice City sold millions of copies and was leaked, yet sold millions. I have no problem shelling out 50 bucks for a quality game I know I will enjoy. It's the crap games like *cough*doom3*cough* that I would have liked to be able to try before I buy.
Upon checking the most popular site to pirate software I see that so far 7516 people have downloaded the game which doesn't put a damper in the first million they sell. A good percentage of those people are posting on forums for troubleshooting help anyways... "o i ned a mod ps2? dats gay!" It's not as big of a problem people hype it up to be anyways. The people who try to play a pirated Halo 2 online will get whats coming to them either way... | |
Nah, if anything its helping. It gives people a preview of whether they would buy the game or not. Seriously, the people who will download the leak are the ones who are going to pirate the game instead of buying it anyhow.
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Well, for multiplayer games I think it's ok to get pirated because most of today's multiplayer games have that server-side CDKey goodness that keeps pirated copies from playing online.
Phew...that was a really long sentence! ~Kujila | |
This is true, and untrue in some ways. True because you are right, it will keep them from playing the game online on the official game servers. In most cases anyhow, you can still bum a key off a friend =)
Untrue because in many a case with popular games, the people will find a way around the official servers and host their own - illegal or not - and still get thousands or more players in them. This is assuming the game is rather popular. I also realize that in many cases the hosts of these servers have been shut down, sued, and put all over the media. Many severe cases such as Battle.net clones that had thousands of players playing most of the Blizzard games without use of the key. I'm not so sure the players were penalized though, I don't remember the case exactly. It still isn't enough to scare the people who don't like paying for things into buying their software though. =P | |
http://ps2.gamespy.com/playstation-2/ grand-theft-auto-san-andreas/558575p1.html