[Skullcowboy]

Originally Posted by MattDizzle

Pirates are the problem, customers become the problem only when they form an argument without knowing all the facts, and that misinformed argument becomes a movement.

Funny how when ever someone complains about DRM they are accused of being misinformed or just plain pirates. I am neither.

Originally Posted by MattDizzle

Customers are always right, and can never be pirates.

But that's not what you just said above, about them being right, anyway...

Originally Posted by MattDizzle

Not all users of Silent hunter games are customers

I have never disputed this.

Originally Posted by MattDizzle

Even if piracy didnt exist, it still takes more time and money to make a game than it did 5 or 10 years ago, but we expect to pay the same amount. Or do you think the same effort went into Aces of the Deep as did Silent Hunter 5? If i'm wrong correct me, but didnt they cost roughly the same, despite you getting much less game for your money?Denying that bigger teams of people ($$Expen$ive$$) are needed to make these newer, more complex sims flies in the face of simple common sense, and i dont know how else i can convince you of this.

The price of the game is not the issue here. I WOULD pay more for the product if I felt it provided the value for that price.

Originally Posted by MattDizzle

To not lose money due to expending more resources to make "bigger" games, they need to give you less product for the same money, or the same product for more money. More product for the same money means more money in the pockets of the consumers, which is not where it belongs from a business perspective. This is before you even begin to get to the issue of piracy, which due to simple GUI programs and the fact that most of us dont have 14.4K modems anymore, is more rampant than it used to be.

Again, I am not disputing this. Again, my point is and has always been (even after you called it ridiculous) that the focus of your business must be on the CUSTOMER. To be a tad blunt, the customer does not care about production, development, resources, distribution issues, payrolls, whether one of the employees has a place to live or pirates. It is not the customers responsibility to fix your business model. But when the focus of your business becomes any of the aforementioned issues to the detriment of the customer there is a serious problem and those customers will take their cash elsewhere.

And really, calling us uninformed, pirates, or comparing us to Fox News because we do this just confirms that you lost us because you either didn't care or just plain forgot about us, THE CUSTOMERS, to begin with.