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I think that you will find that you are wrong about that.

Super Meat Boy was pretty well advertised. In that type of situation, you have to include the free flash game as part of the advertising. There are always exceptions to every rule, of course, but the reason that people continue to say that word of mouth is the best advertising is because it...

I think that you will find that you are wrong about that. Ultimately, word of mouth is very expensive. It involves actual marketing to begin with, plus you have to provide exemplary service to get the person interested in spreading the word. That type of service is expensive.

I think that you will find that you are wrong about that.

So, marketing is pretty pointless, eh?

Well, yeah. That is pretty stupid.

Well, no. The fault lies with the pirates. You can't really blame someone for trying to keep people from stealing their product. However, the complete failure of every drm to date will probably lead to these companies looking to other avenues of stopping it. You just can't really blame them for...

That's fine. You're a trite, petty person. But that's fine. Someone has to be trite and petty so that the rest of us can show you to our children and say "Don't be like that".

I've already seen it. It's nonsense. The definition of theft is not taking something without leaving anything behind. It is merely taking something that doesn't belong to you. Does this data belong to you? No? Then you stole it.

Piracy absolutely does equal stealing, and any attempts to argue that it doesn't just shows that you are ignorant of what it means to steal. Piracy is the theft of data. It is taking something that doesn't belong to you. It's really very clear cut.

I'm not debating whether it was a good idea or not. I'm saying that it isn't what Remedy wanted to do. So, blaming them, and claiming that their current state is karma, for something that they had no control over is neither smart nor fair.

I think you misunderstood what I was saying. I'm saying that cancelling the pc version was not the ideal situation for them. As in, I'm sure they didn't want to do it. But saying that it's karma that their company is suffering because they weren't able to put it on pc is very petty.

Explaining ethics to the unethical is always a losing battle. They will always find a way to justify their behavior to themselves.

You don't really think that it was the ideal situation for them, do you? I mean, obviously they would have preferred to put it out for pc, but circumstances conspired against them. It just seems silly to hold a grudge against someone for something that ultimately they couldn't control. Normally...