If you dont like it, heres some advice, rather then make a total and complete arse of yourself, just dont read it, then you wont have to reply and make a total and complete arse of youself.
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EA is far better then Ubi and Activison, Not that Im a big fan of EA but, their support is better, they treat people better, Origin sucks, them pulling new titles from steam due to greed (wanted 100% cut of their DLC sales)
Activision has flat out said they will milk the pc gamer for all they are worth, thats why their titles stay at such a high price for so long.
Ubi on the other hand decided to treat all gamers as thieves and pirates and put this stupidly broken always online drm on their titles, then accuse people who called complaining about it of being pirates....
they then decided to remove it due to poor sales and complaints, but slapped pc gamers in the face by saying they wouldnt be putting out some highely anticipated titles on pc because "95% of pc gamers would just pirate it", yet they still blame piracy for poorer then expected sales....maby they should look at the fact that around 90% of their games are poorly done console ports.....put out quality games without drm hassles and watch your sales soar.
this really isnt true mort, alot of people i know have downloaded skyrim to test it because they bought oblivion when it first came out and had major issues with it running.
now skyrim dosnt run well on some systems it should run great on, even reinstalling the os and such dosnt seem to fix it for some people, this and wanting to see if there are any major bugs is a large part of why people i know have "pirated" it.
note: most of them either already have bought the game or are just waiting for the christmas steam sale to save a few bucks.
also note that alot of those downloads never finish, each "download" isnt a completed download on TPB (or any other download site be it torrents or direct downloads)
also note there are companies that download the torrent over and over to pump those numbers, its part of the way they "prove" that copyright infringement is ruining the game/music/movie markets.(google a bit, there are articles about this stuff out there that are easy to find)
in short, yeah they lost some sales, but the fact is, they also gain by the word of mouth of those who cant afford to buy the game but love it OR who cant buy it where they live, OR who are just to cheap to buy it till its on sale.
Speaking from personal experience Word Of Mouth(WoM) can make or break a business/product, Its like some movies that have hit torrent sites going from flops to winning awards and making alot of money(the hurt locker anybody?)
in short, dont ASSume that "pirates" are all bad and dont ASSume that every "download"=lost sale, infact as studies have shown with music, downloads can = more sales.
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Activision has flat out said they will milk the pc gamer for all they are worth, thats why their titles stay at such a high price for so long.
Ubi on the other hand decided to treat all gamers as thieves and pirates and put this stupidly broken always online drm on their titles, then accuse people who called complaining about it of being pirates....
they then decided to remove it due to poor sales and complaints, but slapped pc gamers in the face by saying they wouldnt be putting out some highely anticipated titles on pc because "95% of pc gamers would just pirate it", yet they still blame piracy for poorer then expected sales....maby they should look at the fact that around 90% of their games are poorly done console ports.....put out quality games without drm hassles and watch your sales soar.
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now skyrim dosnt run well on some systems it should run great on, even reinstalling the os and such dosnt seem to fix it for some people, this and wanting to see if there are any major bugs is a large part of why people i know have "pirated" it.
note: most of them either already have bought the game or are just waiting for the christmas steam sale to save a few bucks.
also note that alot of those downloads never finish, each "download" isnt a completed download on TPB (or any other download site be it torrents or direct downloads)
also note there are companies that download the torrent over and over to pump those numbers, its part of the way they "prove" that copyright infringement is ruining the game/music/movie markets.(google a bit, there are articles about this stuff out there that are easy to find)
in short, yeah they lost some sales, but the fact is, they also gain by the word of mouth of those who cant afford to buy the game but love it OR who cant buy it where they live, OR who are just to cheap to buy it till its on sale.
Speaking from personal experience Word Of Mouth(WoM) can make or break a business/product, Its like some movies that have hit torrent sites going from flops to winning awards and making alot of money(the hurt locker anybody?)
in short, dont ASSume that "pirates" are all bad and dont ASSume that every "download"=lost sale, infact as studies have shown with music, downloads can = more sales.
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