yo ho, theives and beggars
Mar. 17th, 2008 09:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mcityFrom a Kotaku thread on piracy.
So you want developers to make video games more "enticing" by including large, expensive extras that will increase shipping costs and lower the already tenuous profit margin on the game? Interesting. How many of these bonuses before they equal "free", Hrist?
And the dumbest apologist in the thread, Silverstar95.
The best part is when people say that they pirate to circumvent anti-piracy measures. I don't want to activate a trap card, but the nearest thing I can think of is "Stop Snitchin'".
Look, pretty much the only reason people pirate is because they don't want to pay or wait for something. The rationalizations, especially that whole "sticking it to the man" thing, don't come until much later.
That's just the mentality that people have, and that's the problem. There is a way to make an actual retail copy more enticing, whether it's physical extras (what about all those preorder bonuses that people always seem to love?), packaging (the LOTR special edition packages are pretty sweet) or other things.
-Hrist
So you want developers to make video games more "enticing" by including large, expensive extras that will increase shipping costs and lower the already tenuous profit margin on the game? Interesting. How many of these bonuses before they equal "free", Hrist?
And the dumbest apologist in the thread, Silverstar95.
If not for pirates, ADSL wouldn't even be popular. We'd still be on dialup, and be happy for it. Youtube wouldn't exist, if not for the pirates' insatiable desire for ever-increasing amounts of data. Hard drives wouldn't be dirt-cheap for a 500GB, when it would take us a lifetime to fill one up...So people not paying for things makes things cost less money?
Next time you want to call someone a dirty pirate, think about the time when a DVD burner was close to $1000 and blank DVDs started at 10 bucks each. Or when RAM was 2 bucks a megabyte. Or when a 1GHz processor started out over 900 dollars. It's not the legit market that drives the prices down, it's the underground that swallows it all, whole.
The best part is when people say that they pirate to circumvent anti-piracy measures. I don't want to activate a trap card, but the nearest thing I can think of is "Stop Snitchin'".
Look, pretty much the only reason people pirate is because they don't want to pay or wait for something. The rationalizations, especially that whole "sticking it to the man" thing, don't come until much later.
