What Microsoft Flight can teach us about Silent Hunter online.

[Seeadler]

Ubisoft wants to go more the F2P way on the PC games market
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...-boxed-product

[Julhelm]

I'd like to know which behind he pulled out that 93-95% piracy rate from.

[SilentOtto]

Originally Posted by Julhelm

I'd like to know which behind he pulled out that 93-95% piracy rate from.

Here is a very interesting paper published in the Indian Journal of Law and Technology, Vol 5 (2009) about how they make up those statistics and all the errors and intentional disinformation involved in their creation by (well paid, ofc) consultant firms.

Great read if you're interested in the issue, it's about 20 pages.

I have read another shorter essay about the same issue with those piracy stats here in Spain, where they are bloated and exaggerated too, but it's in spanish only.

[TheDarkWraith]

Let me quote their CEO:

"It's a way to get closer to your customers, to make sure you have a revenue"

I think he meant to say:

"It's a way to distance ourselves from our customers, to make sure we constantly give you the middle finger"

I should've been a translator or transcriptionist...I missed my calling

I swear those people 'upstairs' have absolutely no freakin clue...applies to the company I'm employed with also

[SilentOtto]

I think usually when a firm grows big it's no longer directed by geeks, or anyone with knowledge on whatever their trade is. When firms grow, "money people" take charge, and then it's no longer about the trade, it's just about the money. Every single decision they take!

[Kremmen]

Originally Posted by SilentOtto

I think usually when a firm grows big it's no longer directed by geeks, or anyone with knowledge on whatever their trade is. When firms grow, "money people" take charge, and then it's no longer about the trade, it's just about the money. Every single decision they take!

+1

I think you're pretty close to the mark right there.Faceless beancounters with no passion about what they produce,just what return can we expect for as little outlay as possible and quality be-damned.
Plus of course they've got the dev's as a buffer between them and the paying customer so when the bullets start flying guess who gets hit.

[TheDarkWraith]

Originally Posted by Kremmen

Plus of course they've got the dev's as a buffer between them and the paying customer so when the bullets start flying guess who gets hit.

Unless you're an officer of the corp or in the upper echelon of the corporation's management then you are a sacrificial anode, nothing but cannon fodder