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13-10-2008, 06:54 PM
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Rep Power: 2  |  Piracy "killing" PC games ? Piracy of games has finaly become the most promintent concern for games developers. Gears Of War 2 will not be released for PC and piracy is one of the major reason as claimed by Cliff Bleszinski (level designer). Crytek (as you all know developer of crysis and Farcry) has found out that the pirated to original games ratio is about 25:1 or higher. Epic Games and Crytek are now making Consoles as their primary base for building games. Ubisof and EA games have also said that they will do the same. Ubisoft's End War for PC has been postponded for Piracy concerns. If this continues then I wonder what will be the fate of PC gaming. Its not that console games are always original. But in console games are much less pirated than that of PC games (which has exploded like nukes due to P2P network). I think if the companies stop producing PC games then Console games are likely to face the same fate of piracy. Cause hackers and crackers will not have PC games to pirate so they'll probably start cracking console games. What ever solution comes up ( If a solution comes up), I hope its a clever one and benifits both consumers and game developers. |
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13-10-2008, 07:43 PM
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Rep Power: 1 | consoles are harder to crack... (not speaking of xbox  )... i'm not surprised at this... |
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13-10-2008, 09:53 PM
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But I do not believe in piracy. I admit that I do have some downloaded movies. But I always make it a point to buy them when I travel abroad. My experience with DVDs sold in India is not too good. Moser Baer is an exception because they are so cheap. New members, please do read this report: Moser Baer Movies report.
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14-10-2008, 12:25 AM
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Rep Power: 3 | Yes i too have seen pirated PS2 games ... its a pity that its forcing game devs to move to Consoles ....well it was the main reason sited by Rockstar for postponing/cancellation of GTA 4 for PC ...... Game devs should either move completely to consoles or stay with PCs .... I think once console games catchs up in terms of usage we ll see a surge in pirated Console games .....
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14-10-2008, 12:42 AM
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Rep Power: 1 | Actually i was referring to the ps3 for hard to crack.. xbox can either b flashed easily to run pirated games or be chipped... not so easy with the ps3... agreed the pirated games dvds for consoles are available, BUT they wud not run with the consoles (talking about non flashed xbox n ps3) |
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14-10-2008, 01:07 AM
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....but have seen some yos displaying their pirated warez DVDs,PS2 etc ... | |
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14-10-2008, 11:01 AM
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Rep Power: 2 | Pirated Consoles games have a major disadvantage. YOU CAN NEVER PLAY ONLINE. In pc games you can play pirated games in private network but its not possible for consoles games. Last edited by thats_me; 14-10-2008 at 08:05 PM. |
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14-10-2008, 11:14 AM
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Rep Power: 1 | ya this is an added disadvntg... after all after some time u will wanna go online for a change... i play my genuine nfs mw online a lot... jus rox! |
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14-10-2008, 11:17 AM
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