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Heres some interesting comments about the PC Gaming and Piracy


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More Opinions On PC Gaming And Piracy

Yet another industry exec has now ranted about the perils on rampant piracy in the PC gaming industry. This time the rant is on the Quarter to Three message board and written by Michael Fitch, the director of creative management at publisher THQ. In his rant, Fitch talks about how piracy affected the 2006 released action-RPG Titan Quest; its developer, Iron Lore, announced last month that it would shut down its operations. Here is a snip:
Titan Quest did okay. We didn't lose money on it. But if even a tiny fraction of the people who pirated the game had actually spent some god-damn money for their 40+ hours of entertainment, things could have been very different today. You can bitch all you want about how piracy is your god-given right, and none of it matters anyway because you can't change how people behave... whatever. Some really good people made a seriously good game, and they might still be in business if piracy weren't so rampant on the PC. That's a fact.

Fitch also talks about the well known issue of hardware and software compatibility as they relate to running PC games and even goes after gamers and reviewers who in his words don't read the game manual or do basic PC maintainance. Here is a snip:

There's a lot of stupid people out there. Now, don't get me wrong, there's a lot of very savvy people out there, too, and there were some great folks in the TQ community who helped us out a lot. But, there's a lot of stupid people. Basic, basic stuff, like updating your drivers, or de-fragging your hard drive, or having antivirus so your machine isn't a teetering pile of rogue programs. PC folks want to have the freedom to do whatever the hell they want with their machines, and god help them they will do it; more power to them, really. But god forbid something that they've done - or failed to do - creates a problem with your game. There are few better examples of the "it can't possibly be my fault" culture in the west than gaming forums.
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