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Games have been heavily pirated since the Spectrum and C64 days. At least. If something is available for free, a huge amount of people will get it for free. It's probably some sort of law of economics.

That's pretty awesome.

That's a great name you Belgian nutter.

I think game publishers should use a picture of Bobby Kotick staring obssessively at, and appealing personally to the pirates in order to get all their lost sales.

I've tried Gish, Puzzle Agent, and Recettear so far. I found Gish kind of meh mostly due to crap controls (jumping seems to be terrible), Puzzle Agent has a game stopping bug with all 4XX NVidia cards that has yet to be fixed, and Recettear's confirm key stopped working after 20 minutes of playing. Not getting my money's worth here.

I bought the indie pack for 5 bucks. Because my backlog just wasn't huge enough.

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So that's an October of difference? Or two Februaries?

Obviously.

That combined with: brings the PC sales to a respectable 415,000 units. Nice. On the digital side that's just Steam sales, isn't it? Which means digital sales numbers are even better than that. Which means maybe the 360 version isn't the best selling version.

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Like I noted, that's not my point. It's not an excuse, it's what happens. It shouldn't happen, ethically speaking, but it does. My point is that current industry business models are partly responsible for piracy. Also, to base the business strategy around the premise that a pirated copy is a lost sale is idiotic when many pirates literally don't have the income necessary to buy a game.

You are thinking of Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor.

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.

It's a huge loss, but it's not a loss of 50

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I don't recall the airport area being a corridor. Or Hell's Kitchen. Or other areas I can't remember, right now.

Or perhaps the return of Deus Ex 2. Actually, I'm willing to bet it will be like the first Deus Ex, except all the locations are "cleverly" disguised corridors. End of last thread.

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Start of old thread End of old thread I've preordered The Witcher 2 while at work, and decided on the place I'm going to rent. It's right next to Lisbon's medieval castle. Woot.