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Game developers on piracy
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Found this linked from Ars Technica. There's some interesting discussion linked inside about what several major game developers think of piracy. Thought I'd bring it to your attention, but try to keep discourse civil if at all possible  .
http://crystaltips.typepad.com/wonde...he_house_.html
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interesting, thanks, about piracy and games, under the Mac is a really bad thing for the platform, but talking about videogame systems... that means market share, renting as legal piracy?, totally, rent it, copy it, play it. I can see it every time I go to the games store to buy a game for the Nintendoes I have, I can see lots of folks renting psp and xbox titles plus some dvd media to burn them -cough- of course the game shop also does sell burners and of course, pc titles.
(Last edited by angelmb; Mar 26, 2005 at 08:00 AM.
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People like to be paid for their work. Some people like to give their work for free. If developer A works for company B and then goes saying "hey lets everybody pirate the game I made", then you can choose an option:
1. Developer A wrongfully thought that company B would give away the game for free, even after giving to him a paycheck every month.
2. Company B was fool enough to pay a developer to write a game, distribute it and provide marketing just to have him say "hey don't pay for it, I already got the money".
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I like how they talk about how much it's going to cost to produce games going forward. 20 million? That's just a stupid amount of money!
If I was smart I'd start a game company making SNES (and friends) roms. Use an open-source emulator as a front-end (make it iTunes-like, add extras [like a way to tap CoreImage/Video?])...I dunno, just thinking out loud.
I rarely play new games anymore - more and more I'm searching for the games I played as a kid. With the hardware we have now, geez...Mario never looked so good.
Besides, my kid sure likes the old games (Sonic being his fav.) but I guess I haven't let him play much else. The cartoon-violence in the oldies is, thankfully, nowhere near GTA. Not even counting the better game-play or replay value the old console games had.
/nostalgia
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