May 26th 2009
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Now, mind, this is the only barbaric comment affiliated with World of Goo that I've seen, yet. A lot of pirates are urging others to actually buy the game.
I just can't believe that the our new world allows you to take the (poorly protected, apparantly) work of an individual who spent so long working under a small budget to produce a game. I can't believe that there are sites who encourage people to take the torrent and spread it freely, using shit excuses like "oh, they wouldn't buy it anyway (yes they world, if they read reviews); oh, it's not in Europe, yet (tough shit, although I'm flabbergasted as to why American products take so long to reach Europe)."
I'm tired of sites getting away with ignoring and refusing demands to take the torrents down. It's like slapping the developer in the face for his hard work, and still he loses his hard-earned profit. Before this problem exploded, I thought I could have a chance in the industry as an independent developer. look at what it takes to earn only TEN PERCENT of what you should be getting, where big companies roll in the dough; the cheap, lawyer-sandwiched dough. How do sites get away with this crap? How do people get away with this crap?
When does the integrity that laid in our game-developing ancestors' hands make a come-back?
Even developers tell me that there's nothing I can do, that they can do, that organizations of lawyers can do. I'm trying. The people who develop games are trying. The fans who want to help are trying, even if in vain. There's got to be a limit as to who we hurt in this world. Hurting people and companies is unstoppable, but there should at least be a limit to people who might not get up and walk away from that.
And then we have this guy above us. Laughing. He pwnd us hardc0re.
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Raisho Gekidan Says:
Here's how it works:
-I've read tons of reviews of Prototype, all praising it.
-All my friends say it is amazing.
-I still think it isn't worth 60 goddamn dollars. Hell, I don't think it looks like it's worth 30 dollars. Or 10. I would never buy this game because there's plenty of other things that I would get a better value for, like Macintosh computers or Sony Playstation 3's.
-Given the opportunity, I would still pirate this game for free in a second, out of sheer boredom.
Honestly, I wouldn't even take the time to pirate world of goo, it doesn't look like it's worth the time it takes to pirate it even.
Oh, and don't make the "YOU WOULDN'T STEAL IT OUT OF A STORE, WOULD YOU????" because I would. If security were as loose in Gamestop as it is on the Interweb, anyhow.
Raisho Gekidan Says:
OH AND ANOTHER THING~!!!!
I wish people would come to realise that pirates will be pirates. About 90% (I pulled this out of my ass fyi) of the people who pirate games (like myself) do so because they wouldn't be buying them anyhow. In my case, I've got about 20 dollars of spending money a month, and I work with what I've got. The other 10 made up percent pirate because, frainkly, it's more convinient.
QUICK!!!:
-Buy Assassin's Creed on Steam and download it
-Download a cracked torrent of Assassin's Creed from the Pirate Bay
-Track how long each one takes.
-???
-Profit!
Raisho Gekidan Says:
what the dicks i commented on this twice and neither of them stuck.
Well, here's my posts in a nutshell:
QUICK!!!
-Buy Assassin's Creed from Steam and download it.
-Download a pirated version of Assassin's Creed from TPB.
-Track how long both of them take from start to finish.
-???
-Profit!
GHOST DAD Says:
This problem's a huge can of worms and it just boils down to, either tar everyone with the same brush or not at all. If you're championing that no one pirates independent games, then you might as well say the same for all games because there'd be no effective way to only do it for the latter, and even on a ethical level, they're in the same boat as you, just a much bigger one.
On piracy, people will eternally be unwilling to part with their money and will do anything within reason to get what they want without having to pay for it. Going to the store and hiding a game box in your coat and walking away is too direct. Clicking "Download" isn't.
Or to clarify the analogy; most people would swipe up $50 off the floor and keep it for themselves, no problem. They would probably do so if it was a game, too, and there's not really a whole lot you can do about that.