Sarex

Are you ever going to reply to any post with more that one short sentence. I have not seen you yet adding anything useful to any thread. To answer you question, the first part maybe but the rest no. If piracy was the big bad company killer Gromnir is painting it out to be then we would see all companies fail because of it. I haven't seen a company yet that failed because of piracy. If your games aren't selling it means they aren't good enough, it doesn't mean that your game was pirated more then some other game that sold more numbers. Piracy is a constant, the more popular the game the more it will be pirated. The best way to look at it is to ignore the pirates, it's not like they will pirate one game but not the other, they won't really change the success of one game compared to the other.

Idk, in my country when I was young there were no original games on sale as far as I remember, later when they became available they were astronomically expensive. In the second half of the 90', before the internet was wide spread, you had vendors who sold games for 100 dinars and the originals were something like 6000 dinars(a well of salary then was 40000 dinars, if not even less), which was crazy to most people at the time. At that time it wasn't really illegal to sell in the open, they were like any regular shop. This was all for the PC though which very few people even had. Most kids had consoles like the first Nintendo or Sega Mega 2, which was all bought abroad. Gaming essentially started very late in my country and only recently are those gamers getting old enough to have their own disposable incomes, the generation before them never really got in to gaming. It wasn't after the turn of the second millennium that it was declared illegal and police slowly started to monitor them. Those vendors still exist today and they mostly sell from their bags on the street, but most people now days know how to download from the internet or at least their kids do. Tbh I didn't know a single person who bought original games. The originals were simply priced for a market that had a much stronger economy. Now days though it's changing and people here are getting in to steam and waiting for sales and such, though that is such a miniscule percentage. I must admit as far as I see most people here still pirate. I guess they don't want to support the Western economy. Time will tell if that will change. Pure conjecture, you can neither prove that pirated games = lost sales, nor that those % would make a difference. The more likely reason is that those companies simply got too big for the games they sold to support them, ie. the bubble burst. I know that was the reason with interplay. It's all to easy to blame the pirates for failed businesses. If it was the pirates fault then all game companies would fail.

Why?

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No, they don't compete with anything. There are example of games that couldn't be pirated and still tanked in their sales. I remember when starforce was introduced, Prince of Persia: Two Thrones wasn't pirated for a whole year and it was still a failure to Ubisoft as the sales were underwhelming for them. Simcity was never pirated and they still failed miserably. You have no idea what you are talking about and you don't even know what saturating the market means, as it doesn't apply to digital distribution at all. Nothing would happen even if it was traced... Sure, the big companies can also live without making huge profits too.

LOL, one single measly dime. Can I send it to them in the mail? As I said the problem is that most pirates haven't got any money to give, ie. they are under someone else care or broke. That was not the point they were trying to make, they were saying that all the pirates hurt their profit. No one here is justifying pirating.

Obi it looks like you have some competition! I hope he won't abuse his mod privileges to win the race.

You must not have read Gromnirs story with the ancient strippers. That was priceless too.

Pirated game =/= lost sales!

Yeah I was just wondering.

It's a trick question!

But in the end why does anyone come to the forums anyways, but to lose some time and have some good laughs. Not really, I have been saying that piracy is not as big of a problem you make it out to be. But there are some real hardliners here...

Wanted it for free is not the same as wanted to pay for it. Come on use your brain at least. I have never once said that pirating is "Right". Twist and turn my words all you want, it just makes you look stupid.

Again who said piracy is going to fix anything. My opinion is right there where you quoted me. They don't care about us I don't care about them...

You create air bubbles like that.

It's not really about esthetics, it's about ease of reading. Most forums have rules about this.

Not to mention who Putin learned that particular kind of trolling from.

Where did you get all that from? I didn't even say half those things... Also jumping to conclusions much? I simply said that I don't care that those shareholders don't make large profits, be it games/movies/medications/anything else realy. Most corporations have shown them self for what they are, money hungry companies who won't stop at anything to make a buck. In fact they are the number 1 thing that is wrong in the world today. Sing me up for a NO on that "no" of yours. Not everyone that pirates would buy the game, in fact most people who pirate wouldn't buy the game. On the flip side of the coin arguments have been made that pirates are free marketing and bring in more sales.

So Keyrock the big question, how do you apply your paste? Do you spread it over the cpu with a credit card or do you put some in the middle and let the heat sink spread it out?

TIL In other news I finally hit diamond in LoL, could have probably done it sooner but I can't bring my self to play more then 2 games most days. Slowly going through W:TNO (but motion sickness too OP), and Transistor is gathering dust (even though I'm almost finished).

Have fun dude, hope it starts on the first try.

There should be a rule for this in the forum, but the forum quoting system is beyond retarded, so I kind of get why people are reluctant to edit quotes.

That is what I was talking about.

I am more and more up for the option to pull the trigger on the Haswell-e build, 5820k will be a 6-core and "cheap", then go for a asus-pro x99 board and some cheap ddr4 sticks.

http://www.guru3d.com/news_story/intel_skylake_processors_available_in_2h_2015_get_ddr3_and_ddr4_support.html