Sims 3 Leaked Online

[Hithlain]

waaah double post

 

[Hithlain]

I'm an economist, so I know firsthand that the information that companies use to determine what games to make next is the PROFIT. Your contribution may be small but you are voting for more of the same with your money. Think of all the lost sales over the years....

As an economist who is opposed to piracy, surely you must also be decrying the terrible effect our public library systems can have on book sales. Surely.

well yes in a way. But think of all the productivity created by the increase in education
My knowledge in exotic fruit has increased exponentially for example!

 

[Sixties Spidey]

That's the funniest thing I've heard of this year.

 

[nikomas1]

Hah, all pirate it, If I'm not mistaken, Will Wright isn't even on the team anymore, so pirate this filthy cash grabber!

In other words, milk the milkers? (that sounded so bad...)

 

[Oneirius]

The moment the Sims 3 reaches Israel, I am buying it. EA deserves that money. It is a pity they are denied it by greedy, cheap basterds.

 

[Susan Arendt]

Who? The pirates, who I'd remind you are under the law not capable of being viewed as stealing anything. Or EA, who I'd remind you are using piracy and a leak that they may have in their own company as an excuse to steal from the second hand game market?

You don't have to be evil of cheap to want to read a book for free. But doing something about it like going to the library? Yeah, that makes you a rare and worthwhile person in this day and age, apparently. Seriously, last time I was in a library there were no one there outside of people looking up porn on the computers. Why don't people read more?

(By the by, Miss Arendt, I'm a big fan of your stuff. You have a real understated humor that is simply brilliant. Reminds me of the work of Sarah Haskins. In a perfect world, Yahtzee'd be playing second fiddle.)

Libraries exist for the purpose of allowing people to read books for free, so your analogy confuses me. Why don't more people read? I don't know that they don't, but people would increasingly rather than one-click their way through Amazon than visit the local library -- much the same way they'd rather use Netflix or a streaming video service than visit their local video store. It's simply a matter of convenience. And also, people viewing porn in the library is totally ew. (Fun fact - I worked in a library when I was in high school.)

Also, whether they could successfully prosecuted or not, the pirates are stealing. They are taking something that they shouldn't be. If EA has a leak within their own ranks, which this certainly seems to be a case of (wow, that was awful grammar right there), then this might actually be something else entirely. Not piracy for piracy's sake, so to speak, but rather a very person "FU" to the company.

And thank you for the kind words about my work, they are much appreciated.

 

[scotth266]

Snip.

I think that you're wrong, of course. But your arguments against mine weren't the best. Give me a couple of hours: busy.

 

[Booze Zombie]

I read about this, Gamefaqs has been swamped with pirates commenting on the forums about the game, apparently.

 

[johnman]

Well now, don't get tetchy. While I'm unwilling to get into a pissing match and count, there seem to be just as many people on this thread who agree with me and who agree with you.

As far as I know, there isn't a form of DRM involving games that does not involve the writing of an image to a physical disk, and that is therefor a completely ineffectual form of piracy control.

If you cannot explain to me how Ea (or even EA) is not using their commercial success as an excuse to destroy a legitimate market, then I'm afraid that you have not presented an argument here.

DRM can be anything from requiring a serial number to forcing players to register their games and submitting to constant legitiacy tests. Steam for example is a form of DRM, and is seen as being a fairly successfull form at that. And as for the destorying the second hand market, well, no developer will be sad to see it disappear.