First Crytek no Id Software :S

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hmm... oh well. There is no way you can doubt that piracy had a massive impact on sales of Crysis. Although, it's both sides fault. People shouldn't pirate games, it's wrong but also, Crytek should known it was going to happen and protect it a bit more, probably with an online registration system like Steam.

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Sins of a Solar Empire was a block buster. Well hit wise. It was 2nd top of the PC Gaming charts (NPD) for February this year.

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I've never even heard of Sins of a Solar Empire. I suspect they have a more "loyal" customer base. The piracy problem lies with "blockbuster" style games like Crysis.

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Working on my site I get to speak to alot of game companies. And to honest a lot pretty much say piracy is not a problem. Piracy only turns to be a problem when you start to tread over the user. Look at for example Sins of a Solar Empire. The game had no copy protection, but they sold the game fine and piracy was not to much an issue. Piracy will always happen, they will either have to adapt.. or die.

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Well, piracy is a massive problem. It's not something they think about after the game has been released, they have to take it into effect when starting development. If they think the risk of piracy is too great and revenue is threatened, a project won't be backed.

Piracy isn't just the old 14 year old kid download through Bittorrent, it's the organised criminal gangs who copy games for sale in the Eastern Europe and Asian market and it's that, that really hits sales. I went to a Russian market in Poland where every other stall was selling dodgy goods.

So, just because you don't see the problem doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

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Vreki, I applaud your post! Your explanation is great. I know understand what they (Game Developers) mean when they say "Piracy".

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Does any of you recognize this?


It is the Predator Prey cycle, one of the basic rules of nature.
As the population of predators increase, their prey will become more and more rare, leading to a drop in the predator population
With fever predators around, the prey population will grow againg, and the cycle starts anew.


What am I rambling about? Well, lets say that more and more predators are releasing mediocre games to a prey population of fixed size. As the market share available for each decrease, only those with the best games will survive, which leads to fewer new games, but hopefully better ones.
With fewer games being released, the potential market share for new games increase, attracting new predators.

IMHO what we are seeing is that the consoles has been starved for the FPS experience, while the PC has been saturated with big budget games that all need huge sales to be profitable. But only a few will make those sales.

So now they are screaming "piracy" and jumping to consoles en mass, which will lead to a reversal of the situation in a few years. What are they going to blame then?

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What i know is FPS, RTS are best plaed on PC, as well as PC has a lot better features than consoles. i.e. Internet, Mods, Add-ons, Multiplayer. I even played TPS (3rd person) on PC and enjoyed them more than console.

I too have nothing against consoles, as i own a PS3 and am a fan but i am more of a avid loyal fan to the PC though.

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I have nothing against consoles, but playing halo 3 yesterday made me realize once more how much better suited to FPS games a mouse is compared to a clumsy joystick controller. It's downright annoying to use them after playing PC FPS's so long.

Does this spell doom for PC games!? are we gonna have to shift to * i cant beleive i am saying this* consoles :S :S :S

I am a PC gamer 4 life person, and will support the PC gaming industry till the end, and will keep buying legit games.

Piracy, thats what Crytek blamed it on, now Id is doing the same. iirc other companies before crytek pulled the same reason for this whole fiasco.

Honestly i am getting sick and tired of hearing about companies blaming piracy, instead of whining i'd rather they do something about it. I have read a few articles here on TGN about some companies stepping up to counter piracy.

http://resonance-gaming.com/gaming-news/121/id-Software-Will-not-make-PC-Exclusives-anymore

You guys go ahead and feel free to discuss.