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Originally Posted by Bobb4
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Piracy is here to stay unfortunately and it has helped increase the prices of games as a whole.
Maybe the solution is to make games cheaper. lets face it who would bother buying a pirated game if it was only a few dollars to buy the real thing.
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That's hopeful thinking; even if a game would be one dollar, the people would find it hard to go to a shop and buy the box; instead they can download the torrent for free. For the online shop, the same problem: either people are reluctant to pay online to a relatively unknown gamehouse/shop (especially if it's an eastern european one; Russia recently took over China at the top of the malware/scams). Or the pure laziness to reach and grab that card, just to enter your dates; that's especially lousy, considering the fact that you work more for installing a crack. I also have the perfect example, right in our area of interest: an add-on for a submarine simulator, Silent Hunter 4: U-boat missions. It's only 10$, can be bought online and downloaded right away, but I know right from the makers the sales are pretty scarce and this is while many forums (e.g. subsims.com) are afire talking about it.
Up until now, only online games succeeded somewhat in controlling the piracy, and basically only the massive multiplayer online games. World of Warcraft can be found pirated, but the servers are many updates behind and I think only this game (WoW) could make
more sales by means of piracy; anybody who would use a pirated game on a botched server would sooner or later rush to buy the original, so he/she can play the real thing.
And gents, do not forget that only you can determine if there will be a future for SoW, add-ons and any game that might come from the same source; for Microsoft FlightSimulator there is a HUGE industry for add-ons, and it can only survive because there are thousands and tens of thousands of customers, paying good money for every add-on. There are many sites like ThePirateBay.com which offer the torrents for these add-ons, but the sales are as strong as ever.
So, gents, remember: if you didn't buy the game, don't complain that the bugs are not corrected by patches, or that the next development won't be great or if it might never exist.
I'm curious, how many have the guts to recognize that they use a pirated copy of IL-2 Sturmovik?
I've created an anonymous poll, it's here: http://www.polldaddy.com/p/382475/
Go there and vote, if you're afraid that in forum somebody could trace the votes to a specific person.