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Commie · 03-16-10, 01:27 PM

All these figures are a crock. The fact that The Witcher sold over 1.3 million copies despite being a single player PC only game from a small Polish developer, and easily pirated, and ultimately with a no DRM patch released shows that blaming piracy for lack of sales is just bull. If you sell crap then don't whine when it doesn't sell.

Check out torrent sites and see the traffic on those pirated games. You'll rarely find a game that has been downloaded more that a couple of hundred times, only the big so called AAA titles get into the thousands. Times that by 10 to get the majority of popular private and public game torrent sites and you still couldn't get anywhere near the ridiculous figure for piracy the companies quote.

Tired of all the PC gamer defeatism around here and other places. I mean who cares if the PC scene is 'dying' when most of the big games are pretty crap or just popcorn style entertainment? If I want to play I'll just get an eksbawks or pleystasiun! If EA, UBI and the rest leave for the consoles, it will just mean the the marginalised, innovative and interesting games released and ignored these days by small developers will come to the fore again. I'm sure Eastern European, German etc. developers will relish at the chance to be able to sell their games without being squeezed to the margins by the big boys. These are the regions that try to do things a little differently these days.

The PC will NEVER DIE! It will just be reclaimed by those that want serious, quality games.

03-16-10, 01:27 PM	#27
Commie Machinist's Mate Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 122 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 0	All these figures are a crock. The fact that The Witcher sold over 1.3 million copies despite being a single player PC only game from a small Polish developer, and easily pirated, and ultimately with a no DRM patch released shows that blaming piracy for lack of sales is just bull. If you sell crap then don't whine when it doesn't sell. Check out torrent sites and see the traffic on those pirated games. You'll rarely find a game that has been downloaded more that a couple of hundred times, only the big so called AAA titles get into the thousands. Times that by 10 to get the majority of popular private and public game torrent sites and you still couldn't get anywhere near the ridiculous figure for piracy the companies quote. Tired of all the PC gamer defeatism around here and other places. I mean who cares if the PC scene is 'dying' when most of the big games are pretty crap or just popcorn style entertainment? If I want to play I'll just get an eksbawks or pleystasiun! If EA, UBI and the rest leave for the consoles, it will just mean the the marginalised, innovative and interesting games released and ignored these days by small developers will come to the fore again. I'm sure Eastern European, German etc. developers will relish at the chance to be able to sell their games without being squeezed to the margins by the big boys. These are the regions that try to do things a little differently these days. The PC will NEVER DIE! It will just be reclaimed by those that want serious, quality games. Last edited by Commie; 03-16-10 at 01:44 PM.