so lets get this straight they dont like their practices they dont like the store..etc so instead of using another product like say android or something they hack the iphone do what they want with it and pirate thus taking money not out of apples pocket *they spent the 300+ dollars for an iphone* but out of small developers pockets?Ewyx said:
They seriously wrote you back with a snarky message?!RvLeshrac said:
Demos, rent a game, Borrow a game from a friend you have options more then just throwing your money out there to see if the game works or is good...hell there is one thing you could do but that would be condoning piracy in the end...Snotnarok said:
A hypocrite? I disagree, he's simply weighing his morals against potential monetary gain and finding that since he can't necessarily do anything about the moral issue he may as well accept the ironically increased profit he has.Shale_Dirk said:
I doubt many people actually think all those pirates would have bought the game if they couldn't pirate it..but you can definitely blame piracy for a lost sale in the end its all context but you can still blame piracy for a lost sale let alone the fact the people that would have bought the game but decided to save money and pirate you have others that took the time to either hack the system to allow for copied games to play or hacked the iphone to play said games then without that choice of piracy they would have likely broke down and purchased the game eventually.RvLeshrac said:
hy·poc·ri·sy   bushwhacker2k said:
How would he have gone through with his morals? Stop selling the game? No offense but think this through before you start quoting dictionary.com.Shale_Dirk said:
You make a fine point. I have pointed out the same thing, that no one puts out demos anymore. I remember when PS2 was first out. I used to buy every game I wanted from Gamestop. They had this awesome return policy that let you return the game within 7 days, even if the reason was you didn't like it. Piracy is probably like this for many people.bushwhacker2k said:
In regards to the strawman re: dictionary.com; Then use your personal favourite dictionary. You will find that definitions differ little between dictionaries for the most part.bushwhacker2k said:
I will say it for a 3rd time, that does NOT tell me if it runs on my system. I have no means to test that other than a demo. And TECHNICALLY SPEAKING it's illegal (in some EULAS) for me to borrow it from a friend and play on his account on my PC to see if it works. And what if a friend doesn't have the game? I cannot return it to a store once open, I cannot go by system requirements because they're rarely right.WilliamRLBaker said:
So who's in the wrong here?
I think I'm missing something...Shale_Dirk said:
The reason (supposedly) for his increased sales is awareness of the game, not something that's an issue for AAA games. So yes, in 100% of cases piracy hurts their sales.Shale_Dirk said:
The article establishes that he has a code running to check if the game is cracked. Currently it doesn't do anything other than report back whether a copy of the game is real or pirated. He can cross-reference that to the install date of the game and present the graph that was shown in the article. Previously the code shut down the game when it found that the game was pirated:bushwhacker2k said:
I was actually gonna ask the same thing, how do they know how many people pirated it? Probably some way that I just haven't thought of.FlashHero said:
