Recent content by CLime

Single player western-style RPG with multiplayer dungeons. The open world of The Elder Scrolls, the grey morality of The Witcher, the various character backgrounds of Dragon Age: Origins, the deep class system DnD, with the polished multiplayer raids of WoW. Basically you can play through...

Marginal cost. The studio doesn't make a new game every time someone buys it. They could create 1000 digital copies for basically nothing compared to the cost of making the game itself. As long as everyone that is willing to pay for the game does so, the studio does not care a whit whether or...

If you pirate a game that you would have paid for otherwise, the studio loses money. If you pirate a game that you would never have paid for, the studio does not lose money. Piracy is illegal because it's entirely impractical to distinguish those two groups. This is different from...

ITT: People make it obvious they have never read so much as an Arby's placemat on business or economics in their lives. At this point I find it hard to believe you're not just being thick intentionally. If piracy were legal, the vast majority would just never pay for games. How is that...

Edit: Double trouble.

Geez, do I have to spell this out? When various states repealed their anti-sodomy laws, everyone didn't suddenly turn gay. Even the most bigoted homophobes don't cite the potential extinction of the human race as a legitimate reason to deprive gays of rights. Unlike being gay, if piracy was...

It's this kind of misinformation that leads to people making baseless statements about the video game industry. Hell, about any industry. I find it hard to take anything else in that post seriously. It's called inflation. The price of almost everything trends up over time if you just...

I'm still not sure what your point is. If every publisher introduced strict DRM measures to cut off the secondary market, of course I wouldn't like it very much. I also wouldn't dispute their right to implement said measures or accuse them of "profiteering" or any such nonsense. Believe me...

You're right, actually. Piracy is often a perfectly rational thing for one person to do. The reason it's illegal, obviously, is because pirates are not self-consistent. Copyright infringement in general is more or less the Prisoner's Dilemma on a large scale. As long as most people are...

The better question is, why should we care? Yes, the existence of the secondary market probably means that game developers make less money. So what? The developers and publishers are hurt a little, the consumer benefits a lot. That's called "efficiency," and it's a good thing. Morality has...

No. I don't know if you work for a living or not, but there are people out there to whom $3 does mean something. If you buy one game a month for 14 months, that's a whole extra game you could afford by buying used. The publishers aren't running a charity, why should the consumer treat them...

First off, the OP somewhat misquotes the PA newspost that sparked this debate. Emphasis mine. He's not saying that buying used is equivalent to piracy across the board, just that they have equivalent benefits to the developer (i.e. none). That said, I still don't support with this...

I dunno, Poe's Law seems applicable here. I'm not sure the mainstream arguments against gay marriage are any more persuasive than this nutjob's. Hell, at least he has, ahem, "evidence" to support his positions. Have a conversation with an average Prop 8 supporter and you might hear something...

There's a huge difference between "normal" voter issues (such as elections) and the Prop 8 referendum. In the former case, everyone has to live with the option the voters choose- everyone will be affected, ostensibly, by the choices made by the new mayor or governor or president. With Prop 8...

No. Prop 8 should never have been voted on to begin with. This is why kids need to pay attention in History class, so they don't get misguided ideas about what democracy really is. The United States is infinitely more democratic now than it was when the Constitution was ratified. I would...