An Open Letter to the Okudas

[GalaxyX]

Personally I'm sick of all the assholes who pirate everything and spoil it for the rest of us when companies don't want to improve their products due to fear of theft.

Yeah... doesn't happen, except in corporate whining and wet dreams.

Well I was thinking in particular about the game Crysis. Even now it's still considered THE benchmark of PC gaming.

Yet it has been the most pirated game to date.

So what happens? The PC gets forgotten and the developers instead concentrate on the inferior game consoles (because it's not as easy to pirate the games there), and we're lucky to get Crysis 2 for the PC which does improve much visually.

Another example: Halo. Microsoft hasn't even bothered to release another Halo after 2 on the PC because they will hurt their X-Box cash cow (due to the immediate amount of piracy that immediately begin with any PC releases).

I have no gaming consoles, but a pretty fast PC. I can't stand playing games with inferior graphics on the consoles, but nothing I can do because of the pirates.

 

[Sho]

Xbox games get pirated, too, however.

 

[Joker]

Personally I'm sick of all the assholes who pirate everything and spoil it for the rest of us when companies don't want to improve their products due to fear of theft.

Yeah... doesn't happen, except in corporate whining and wet dreams.

Well I was thinking in particular about the game Crysis. Even now it's still considered THE benchmark of PC gaming.

Yet it has been the most pirated game to date.

People who pirate games don't like paying for things. Calling their downloads "lost sales" is, again, corporate wet dreaming.

Factor in sales from digital distribution and you probably won't see much difference.

 

[BillJ]

Personally I'm sick of all the assholes who pirate everything and spoil it for the rest of us when companies don't want to improve their products due to fear of theft.

Yeah... doesn't happen, except in corporate whining and wet dreams.

Well I was thinking in particular about the game Crysis. Even now it's still considered THE benchmark of PC gaming.

Yet it has been the most pirated game to date.

So what happens? The PC gets forgotten and the developers instead concentrate on the inferior game consoles (because it's not as easy to pirate the games there), and we're lucky to get Crysis 2 for the PC which does improve much visually.

Another example: Halo. Microsoft hasn't even bothered to release another Halo after 2 on the PC because they will hurt their X-Box cash cow (due to the immediate amount of piracy that immediately begin with any PC releases).

I have no gaming consoles, but a pretty fast PC. I can't stand playing games with inferior graphics on the consoles, but nothing I can do because of the pirates.

PC gaming is dying because you just don't have enough people out there who like to screw around for hours or days trying to get a game to run right.

I use to game on a PC and it was just a tiresome process. I'd much rather use my free time actually playing games, so I moved to consoles.