93-95% PC piracy

[Sternjaeger II]

the only way to effectively tackle the issue (and yes, those numbers are ridiculous), is to completely change the approach to gaming.

Many developers agree now that the future of gaming will be with a new generation of ad hoc consoles that will work as terminals, and people will just connect to servers and play online the game they paid for via a fee or subscription to a service.

Thinking about it, gaming on PCs is a bit of an anomaly, one could even say a bad habit, that got pretty quickly out of hand and turned into a non homogeneous reality of different machines, pc spec etc... a true mess that favours hardware producers, but surely doesn't help developers or the gamers' pockets.

The best way to tackle the issue is again to completely rethinking the gaming structure, which would allow for better gaming experience, compatibility and ultimately R&D, and as faster internet connections are becoming widely available, cloud gaming is probably the incoming revolution.

[fly_zo]

Originally Posted by BadAim

But, Fly you miss the real point. Just because your government steals a given amount of money from you (taxes), does not give you the right to steal from the guy who developed the thing that is stolen.

This whole idea that extra expense and trouble created by thieves is somehow the fault of the person being robbed is bloody ludicrous. Screw all you thieves.

If you want to sit back and do nothing and get the benefit of those who work, you deserve nothing but a slow death by starvation. Period.

again it is not thievery if you pay in advance ... it is just how things are organized here


if you go to the restaurant and have an meal after paying to waitress you don't really care if restaurant owner gets that money or not ...

also if government takes fee for my medical from my salary every month (and they do) i don't need to pay doctor every time i need his services .

Why should we( the little 99% people) carry the burden for those 1% ... they are incorporated they have founds and army of lawyers so they can collect their fee. But having double payment , from final customers and from associations ( collected from taxes) is rather appealing for always hungry 1% ...

you should really wake up and stop looking at the world as black and white cos it is unfortunately only gray .


ah and i should mention earlier that i do buy my games ...

[adonys]

as the average age of a ww2 simulator is way over 30, I think we all are buying our games around here.

heck, I even have some 350 games on Steam only, and I don't think I've even started up half of them, not to talk about really playing.