The industry is trying to make money any way it can because they like money. Companies like Activision are making Billions of dollars, piracy is not to blame for any decline, higher costs of development and changing markets are to blame for a possible decline
1. Jim Sterling?
2. The devs of Witcher 2 didn't mind that, because the game still sold well. It doesn't matter how much something is pirated as long as it makes enough money to keep the developer making games. A game that sells 3 million copies and is pirated 6 million times has still sold 3...
You're talking about indepenedant films, while I'm mainly talking about AAA video games. Did the film lose money? Was it torrented a significant number of times?
I understand how this might not apply, but a film that gains exposure a lot of exposure via torrent, is more likely to make money...
But Skyrim and Modern Warfare 3 have just sold millions of copies. I remain unconvinced that piracy has the capacity to destroy the industry, poor sales are what could kill the industry, and although sometimes piracy may contribute to that it is silly to say that piracy is the only reason...
Let me start off by saying that in all my life I have torrented 1 game, Doom 1. I have also been given a pirated version of Age of Empires 2 (a game I already owned but needed to run off a memory stick). Thats it, and both of those files are long gone.
None of this however is a moral...
Is the game worth actually playing, considering the gameplay itself is supposed to be pretty bad, couldn't I just watch the story on youtube without missing out on much? Or is there something I'm missing...
A while ago I brought a copy of Wind Waker, and it came with Ocarina of Time as well. I never got around to playing Ocarina, and I was wondering if it was worth playing now or waiting potentially a year to play the new 3DS version
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