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[Mamoulian War]

That is pretty interesting...

[Mamoulian War]

And another interesting story how to start a company and compete with piracy in a country where was at the time probably 99% of software pirated... By CD Projekt RED

 

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-11-06-seeing-red-the-story-of-cd-projekt

 

Then it speaks about development of Witcher and Witcher 2 and how the company became what it is now.

[alanschu]

I'm surprised they opted for this course of action if what the article says is so true: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-12-15-cd-projekt-responds-to-demanding-nearly-and-8364-1000-from-alleged-pirates

[Bester]

[Bester]

"Openworld" with no possibility to jump.

Compas - stolen from Skyrim. Torch - stolen from Dark Souls.

 

The only good thing - tactical pause at 18:20 if you're interested.

Edited November 11, 2013 by Bester

[melkathi]

So one of my mother's hobbies since retiring is worrying about my career and scouring the internet for jobs that could interest me.

Among those was a job as German Gaming Advisor. Sounded kinda neat. Then I looked at more than the title: customer support for the Elder Scrolls MMO. Which at least in the EU, as it turns out, will not be done by Bethesda itself but is handled by these kind souls in Lissabon (company recruitment video follows) :

 

Part of the benefits package for the Elder Scrolls team the company is putting together, in anticipation of the game's release, is "exclussive access to the game". So if you end up playing and wonder why the CS person knows little more than you (if anything), don't be a racist and complain about CS getting outsourced to India. It didn't. It got ourscourced to Portugal

Edited November 11, 2013 by melkathi

[Humanoid]

Good to know the support team will at least have played the game then. That said, perhaps the only decent thing to do would then be to advise callers to play something else.

[Morgoth]

Blizzard is possibly also working on WarCraft 1/2 HD remakes:

http://www.polygon.com/2013/11/10/5087768/blizzard-warcraft-and-warcraft-2-working-on-modern-pcs

[mkreku]

I'm surprised they opted for this course of action if what the article says is so true: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-12-15-cd-projekt-responds-to-demanding-nearly-and-8364-1000-from-alleged-pirates

 

You're surprised that they chose to not punish their legit customers with DRM and instead went after the pirates?

[Serrano]

"Openworld" with no possibility to jump.

Compas - stolen from Skyrim. Torch - stolen from Dark Souls.

 

The only good thing - tactical pause at 18:20 if you're interested.

 

You're dead inside, that play footage was incredible. 

[Bester]

Never would I pay a thousand euros for a game as bad as Witcher, pirated or not. The reasonable thing would be to ask for 50 euros. Then I'd be like "ok, you caught me, here you go". Thousand? Not gonna happen.

Edited November 11, 2013 by Bester

[Bester]

And by the way, it's actually 2011 news. And they closed this thing and apologized to the pirates.

[Humanoid]

I ended up paying ~$150 for the game in total - bought the digital copy from GOG while waiting for my import CE to arrive. Irrational? Yes. But totally would do it again.

[melkathi]

Never would I pay a thousand euros for a game as bad as Witcher, pirated or not. The reasonable thing would be to ask for 50 euros. Then I'd be like "ok, you caught me, here you go". Thousand? Not gonna happen.

 

I am so going to rob a bank tomorrow. When they catch me I'll them the reasonable thing would be to ask for the money back "ok, you caught me, here you go" . Jail time? Not gonna happen.

[Malcador]

I am so going to rob a bank tomorrow. When they catch me I'll them the reasonable thing would be to ask for the money back "ok, you caught me, here you go" . Jail time? Not gonna happen.

 

Just say you did it in a drunken stupor - all sins will be forgiven.

[Azdeus]

 

Never would I pay a thousand euros for a game as bad as Witcher, pirated or not. The reasonable thing would be to ask for 50 euros. Then I'd be like "ok, you caught me, here you go". Thousand? Not gonna happen.

 

I am so going to rob a bank tomorrow. When they catch me I'll them the reasonable thing would be to ask for the money back "ok, you caught me, here you go" . Jail time? Not gonna happen.

 

 

Yes, copyright infringement is totally equal to actual robbing and stealing. Totally.

[Bester]

 

Never would I pay a thousand euros for a game as bad as Witcher, pirated or not. The reasonable thing would be to ask for 50 euros. Then I'd be like "ok, you caught me, here you go". Thousand? Not gonna happen.

 

I am so going to rob a bank tomorrow. When they catch me I'll them the reasonable thing would be to ask for the money back "ok, you caught me, here you go" . Jail time? Not gonna happen.

 

If you shoplift a box with Witcher and get caught, you'll get neither jail time, nor a thousand dollars fine. In most civilized countries, you'll have to buy the game or they'll call the cops and then you'll pay a 50 euros fine to the government. Of course in the US, you might get arrested, beaten up by cops, have your anus inspected for drugs etc, but as I was saying, I'm talking about civilized euro-countries here.

 

In normal countries, stealing things under ~100 euros isn't a crime/felony (like a bank robbing would be), but an infraction.

Edited November 11, 2013 by Bester

[Bester]

 

 

Never would I pay a thousand euros for a game as bad as Witcher, pirated or not. The reasonable thing would be to ask for 50 euros. Then I'd be like "ok, you caught me, here you go". Thousand? Not gonna happen.

 

I am so going to rob a bank tomorrow. When they catch me I'll them the reasonable thing would be to ask for the money back "ok, you caught me, here you go" . Jail time? Not gonna happen.

 

 

Yes, copyright infringement is totally equal to actual robbing and stealing. Totally.

 

Dirty commoner! If ye speaketh another word against our Lord the Publisher, ye shall call upon yourself Inquisitorial questioning with torture, followed by death on righteous fire to cleanse your thieving bastard's soul! Thou hast been warned!

Edited November 11, 2013 by Bester

[melkathi]

 

 

Never would I pay a thousand euros for a game as bad as Witcher, pirated or not. The reasonable thing would be to ask for 50 euros. Then I'd be like "ok, you caught me, here you go". Thousand? Not gonna happen.

 

I am so going to rob a bank tomorrow. When they catch me I'll them the reasonable thing would be to ask for the money back "ok, you caught me, here you go" . Jail time? Not gonna happen.

 

 

Yes, copyright infringement is totally equal to actual robbing and stealing. Totally.

 

 

Copyright infringement is not what matters here. What matters is that people (the devs) work their arse off to produce the best product they can and then some little twerp (for example dear Bester) comes along, steals it and then wants to also be coloured as the righteous one and the one we should feel sorry for if someone makes an attempt at catching him. And how dare the industry upon catching him say anything but "Tag your it!"

But hey let's all grab our pitchforks and chant about evil publishers, then everything is ok.

[rjshae]

 

 

Never would I pay a thousand euros for a game as bad as Witcher, pirated or not. The reasonable thing would be to ask for 50 euros. Then I'd be like "ok, you caught me, here you go". Thousand? Not gonna happen.

 

I am so going to rob a bank tomorrow. When they catch me I'll them the reasonable thing would be to ask for the money back "ok, you caught me, here you go" . Jail time? Not gonna happen.

 

 

Yes, copyright infringement is totally equal to actual robbing and stealing. Totally.

 

Yes. Yes it is. Robbing and stealing is the unlawful act of taking something that doesn't belong to you. Copyright defines a certain form of ownership. Illegally taking something under copyright is robbing and stealing. It doesn't matter if you received it second-hand; you're merely complicit in the act.

 

Deal with it.

[Hurlshort]

In some ways copyright infringement can be worse than physical theft.  If you take a piece of copyright material and make it available to millions of people behind the owners back, that is a lot more serious than taking an actual object.

 

 

But hey, let's not get in the way of all the immoral crusaders and their fight against The Man.   

[Malcador]

I have a hard time seeing what you are stealing from the vendor when you copy bits of data from someone else that has altered the bits of data from the vendor.

 

But hey, let's not get in the way of all the immoral crusaders and their fight against The Man.

Who are accusing this time ?

Edited November 11, 2013 by Malcador

[Bester]

 

 

 

Never would I pay a thousand euros for a game as bad as Witcher, pirated or not. The reasonable thing would be to ask for 50 euros. Then I'd be like "ok, you caught me, here you go". Thousand? Not gonna happen.

 

I am so going to rob a bank tomorrow. When they catch me I'll them the reasonable thing would be to ask for the money back "ok, you caught me, here you go" . Jail time? Not gonna happen.

 

 

Yes, copyright infringement is totally equal to actual robbing and stealing. Totally.

 

Yes. Yes it is. Robbing and stealing is the unlawful act of taking something that doesn't belong to you. Copyright defines a certain form of ownership. Illegally taking something under copyright is robbing and stealing. It doesn't matter if you received it second-hand; you're merely complicit in the act.

 

Deal with it.

 

Stealing a valuable item (value > 100 euros) = crime. 

Stealing with a gun = felony.

Stealing a video game = infraction.

 

But if we follow your logic, then piracy = genocide for all I know.

Edited November 11, 2013 by Bester

[Malcador]

Stealing fun you say ? Hm...well..I suppose so if the game's MP is a big point and you crack it and just play on reverse-engineered cracked servers. Then some legitimate buyer has less people to play against and loses some enjoyment as his servers are not full.

 

Could be it.

[PK htiw klaw eriF]

Is bester a replacement alt for oby?