"Our Prince of Persia sequel didn't sell as well as we think it should... PIRACY!"
"Don't like our always-online DRM? Well fuck off if you don't like it!... Oh why is no one buying our games on PC? Must be PIRACY!"
"Customers take it personally when we call most of them thieves... typical PIRATES."
Their cuntiness alone has ensured more people will pirate their games out of spite now, and I hope they go bankrupt.
We're supposed to have sympathy for them too, even though by their own arguments they deserve to die off. Piracy is killing the PC market, but the response to any legitimate complaint is to stop buying PC games if we don?t like it. If we act rationally and refuse to throw the baby out with the bathwater and download a game, we're killing them. What would they rather have us do? ?Talk with our wallets? and not play the games at all, and certainly don?t buy them. Which would also kill the industry, but that?s somehow the more moral solution. Either way the industry is basically daring us to kill it.
Most people are talking with their wallets, which is why the market is shrinking. And what message does the industry take from that? That they should do something different? Nope. The message is that they should simply move to consoles due to a shrinking market they surely can?t be responsible for. So even when we do follow the "moral" way, nothing changes. So the decision, from our view, is between "No Games, Dead Industry" and "Pirate Games, Dead Industry".
In other words, if the industry isn?t going to get the message no matter what we do and is going to die either way. Should I feel sorry for Ken Levine not getting paid for a good game? Nope. The industry doesn?t care about screwing us over in the name of unproven piracy damages, so I don?t see why we should care if a few decent developers get crushed in the name of taking down an industry that could not possibly care less about doing proper business with us.
"Don't like our always-online DRM? Well fuck off if you don't like it!... Oh why is no one buying our games on PC? Must be PIRACY!"
"Customers take it personally when we call most of them thieves... typical PIRATES."
Their cuntiness alone has ensured more people will pirate their games out of spite now, and I hope they go bankrupt.
We're supposed to have sympathy for them too, even though by their own arguments they deserve to die off. Piracy is killing the PC market, but the response to any legitimate complaint is to stop buying PC games if we don?t like it. If we act rationally and refuse to throw the baby out with the bathwater and download a game, we're killing them. What would they rather have us do? ?Talk with our wallets? and not play the games at all, and certainly don?t buy them. Which would also kill the industry, but that?s somehow the more moral solution. Either way the industry is basically daring us to kill it.
Most people are talking with their wallets, which is why the market is shrinking. And what message does the industry take from that? That they should do something different? Nope. The message is that they should simply move to consoles due to a shrinking market they surely can?t be responsible for. So even when we do follow the "moral" way, nothing changes. So the decision, from our view, is between "No Games, Dead Industry" and "Pirate Games, Dead Industry".
In other words, if the industry isn?t going to get the message no matter what we do and is going to die either way. Should I feel sorry for Ken Levine not getting paid for a good game? Nope. The industry doesn?t care about screwing us over in the name of unproven piracy damages, so I don?t see why we should care if a few decent developers get crushed in the name of taking down an industry that could not possibly care less about doing proper business with us.
