Mamoulian War

The publishing community is quite united. The Authors Guild sued Google, and got massive reparations for books they offered illegally online. And I suspect you'd be hard-pressed to find any game developer on the planet who loves piracy, because they just want to, like, have more peeps enjoy the product they've created even if they can't pay for it. Of course the publishers are quite united, because they live out of another people creative work publishers != authors... here is some prime example how a free to download thing actually makes more money, than signing in with a publisher... http://questioncopyright.org/sita-distribtion-numbers if you can't be arsed to read it here is the summary... EDIT: adding in one more link which is worth to see, (just in case that you have missed it in the article ) http://sitasingstheblues.com/license.html#total-compliance

Please don't do that again, I almost spilled my carecup full of tea over my notebokk

I think his point was more to the lines that in some places games are overpriced ridiculously as to eliminate purchasing them as an option entirely. Therefore pirating it via torrent or some Chinese store becomes more appealing than it would. And for them, definitely not a lost sale. Most likely the reality of the situation, but I suppose we must get righteously angry over it still (not our money in any event so ) Hm, wonder how come no one's mentioned that 'entitlement' buzzword yet. Yay at least 1 person who read the thread really understand what i was really talking about... Here a sweet and crunchy chocolate cookie for you My last post about this theme in this thread, no more hijacking from now on.

Yes, and that's the reason, when someone has last 50 EUR/USD in their hands they rather go buy some food and pirate the game, than buy the game and stay hungry for next two weeks... such are the priorities of life...

Yeah, no. Not anywhere near the scale that it exists on the PC at least. It is just too easy to pirate on the PC, whereas console piracy has more hoops to jump through. Not if you can buy chipped console right out of the box, even with 2 years guarantee... Which is easily possible in more countries, than you can imagine And what do you do when anti piracy updates are rolled out? Send it back for a update assuming one becomes available? Yes they do exactly that.. new update gets cracked usually within 1-5 days... and the price for remodding the console with newest update in eastern europe is from 1 to 15 EUR... and the most interesting thing is, that it is legal... it's wrong, but it happens... and i can say that around me is console piracy more widespread than PC piracy... And ofc there is one more thing... You can in the southeast europe and asia also to buy console games from some russians and chinese, who manufacture pressed games in very big numbers and sell them for 1-10 dollars, and you do not even need to mod your console... this is the reality of how easy is to use pirated console software... The piracy is only a marketing word, used by publishers to move as soon as possible gaming from product to service only and to destroy second hand market... if piracy was such big issue as their are whining about, every developer, their mothers and dogs would be producing games only for PS3... which was uncracked for very very long period of time... nothing else...

If an Eastern European gamer making, say, $400 a month, buys a $1000 PC, he will probably be doing so through a small loan paid over 2 years with an interest rate of at least 20%. Which means that he will be paying at first, some 50$ out of his monthly income in the first year. Now, it's not unreasonable to suppose that this gamer will spend $300 a month in various expenses, including rent, food, phone, gas, electricity, water and transportation. Now, how does this gamer play games on his $1000 PC? He pirates them. Now, I said Eastern European, but I could have said South American, Southeast Asian, or Southern European. These are huge markets and games simply aren't priced to be sold there at all. Finaly someone who gets the full picture...

Yeah, no. Not anywhere near the scale that it exists on the PC at least. It is just too easy to pirate on the PC, whereas console piracy has more hoops to jump through. Not if you can buy chipped console right out of the box, even with 2 years guarantee... Which is easily possible in more countries, than you can imagine

I just finally finished White Knight Chronicles, and I really liked the storyline... Hopefully WKC2 will get announced EU release soon Would be shame to miss the ending of the story

What is the difference between Disc version of IWD 2 and the "Complete" version from GoG??? IWD2 had not any expansion pack, so i kinda do not understand what can be called complete on this game EDIT: Meh, i just found out, it's just the Adventure Pack items...

Lord of the rings online

and i was hoping to see some pictures and "how to"'s about putting complete WWII collection in a living room without scratching furniture...

I don't mind to change, but you need to change as well... 50 EUR for a disc, manual bonus artwork is fine, 50 EUR for digital download is ridiculous... i can tell that to you as well stop producing game which needs to sell 2 million copies to break even, and you might not extinct as well Look how awesome minecraft is selling, look how awesome dragon quest IX is selling, take notes, and you might see a profit soon... you don't need horrendous budgets to make good games and make big profits... and one more question... how do you want to compete with 50 EUR digital downloads with "free" digital downloads? imo it's much harder than to compete than with collector's editions with that kind of downloads...

less specialist retailers = less places to see games = less advertisement, which can lead to lower sales numbers, which can lead to more publishers crying about piracy... we'll see how it turns out, but I am not willing to pay 50+ EUR for digital only products... 10 - 15 EUR is enough for a game without manual, artwork and other stuff which is added into real collector editions of games...

Mass Effect 3. Because, like, making new games is just so mid 1990s. WHy do something different when you can keep doing the same thing over and over and still make money hand over fist? It's the Blizzard model. And well proven at this point. Did I miss that Blizz started to produce shovelware on yearly basis like EA, or you are just talking nonsense?

White Knight Chronicles and Final Fantasy XIII

"Adressing the weak spots".... what weak spots?!? No Auto-Combat insta-win button...

Beyond Good or Evil or Mask of the Betrayer would be the first games I would recommend you to play through... And I heard that Metro 2033 is pretty short, but never played it, so I can't say if that's true or not...

upgrade to 3.6.8 and it may help... If not, try to disable all of your addons in FF... That can help as well...

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Finaly got the time to play some FFXIII, 25+ hours in Chapter Nine, and I am pretty much realy enjoying the game... And the some of the locations looks absolutely fantastic... I was never much into graphics, but what did SE with FFXIII is like WTF? Simply the best graphic stuff I've ever seen...

There is still a possibility, that they will announce, that they have lost the D&D license

Was it actually Blizzard's fault? It's actualy fault of not using linux box for monetary transactions on the web

Is he bashing JRPGs again?

MAN THIS I LOVE YOU EVEN THOUGH I HAVE NEVER MET YOU IN MY WHOLE LIFE AWESOME yes, that is the best SF movie scene ever

Does it work for EU client aswell? And if yes, can you unlock the skin, if you have not unlocked the hero yet? I'm on EU and it worked, also technically you get the skin, but the hero unlocks as well. Dunno if it's a bug, oversight or intentional, but that's the way it is. I doubt it's a bug, they also did it with the Facebook Tristana skin and that also got you both the skin and champion. Yay, thanks for the reminder Got Tristana unlocked aswell