>1990 was 32 years ago
jesus FUCK i miss those days when there was only a NES and you could just pop in the game into the console and it played
nowadays you have to connect to internet, charge the controller, install the game, download update, unsubcribe from ten different services and change ten million options before playing
and dont get me started on what holes pc has to jump through to get some games in
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Why does Denuvo still trigger people? Just fucking buy the game if you want it, it's already cheap as dirt on key sites.
Is Doom even worth buying?
The singleplayer was worth it to me. I've replayed it a couple of times.
As much as people like to think it's not true, not a money issue.
>Pirates buy far more games and software than non-pirates
>Piracy forces developers to create games good enough for people to spend money on them
>Piracy generates positive word of mouth it would be impossible to get by using regular marketing, giving sales a huge boost
>No good game uses Denuvo
At the end of the day Denuvo is immensely harmful for the videogame industry.
ya i dont know either, denuvo games usually go great along with my new i7 and gtx 1080 card. why dont people just buy it?
>software stopping piratefags from playing the game hurts sales!
>literally nobody who pirates would buy the game!!!
You fags are absolutely pathetic.
>1990
>32 years ago
You don't have to do well in school but you should be able to figure this out. Its been 26 years dumbass
>Pirates buy far more games and software than non-pirates
This meme again. Who are you trying to fool?
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This is actually true here are some sources backing it up.
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I don't know if it holds true for games, I don't have the data, but it's true for music and movies.
That's not true. Read the study and you'll realize they're talking about the top 10% of pirates buying 300% more media on average than non pirates. That's 10% of an estimated 14% of PC gamers that pirate games, not a majority and the money they spend is paltry overall compared to basic consumers as a whole. So yeah, while you're statistically more likely to spend more money if you pirate a lot, you aren't contributing more money than any other group of people and still result in lossed sales.
Remember this is the top 10% of pirates that applies to, people who host torrents and steal a lot of media. Your average pirate is not in this category and is, in fact, a drain on the industry
Tl;Dr you're wrong only because you didn't pay attention to the study
>Sources hosted by pro-piracy sites
Ayyy. Now we're here, why don't you post a "scientific studio" about the superiority of the white race hosted by gasthenonwhitesracewarnow.blogspot.com
Another way to look at it is that the top pirate buyers are subsidizing for those that can't buy.
Those that won't buy are never going to anyway, and some of those have perfectly valid reason to do so.
source of this porn?
So torrentfreak is considered a reliable source now?
Speaking from personal experience I probably never paid for a pc game in 20+ years of pirating. Primarily play on console now due to less free time so buy most of my games. Still steal pc games when I feel the urge.
a) Ars Technica is "pro piracy" now?
b) There's no winning that debate if you're taking in bad faith. You're reaching tautological non-sense. The data from those sites can't be trusted because they're pro piracy, and we now they're pro piracy because they're hosting that data.
We're talking about a few hundred top pirates vs millions of pirates; there is no way they're subsidizing everyone who doesn't buy.
And there is no valid reason. Not having money to buy media or games doesn't entitle you to use them.
Think about it: if pirates were better customers than regular paid consumers, then every single game would be free to play with a "Donate now" box. Even single player games.
While it's true that The Witcher 3 didn't use DRM, you couldn't just download it from CDProject's website or GOG; if you wanted to play it you had to pay for it. If you wanted to play it without paying you had to use an illegal source, like torrents.
Maybe. I think the reports on individuals are casting this in some sort of positive light but the OECD (an actual study not a click bait article that you can go read now) even addresses that the pattern of heavy media pirates spending more money as individuals, but succinctly stated that the group was not contributing a majority of the profit.
The Economic Impact of Counterfeiting and Piracy is the name of the study.
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>And there is no valid reason.
Archiving. Without pirates, there's some games you can buy on GOG right now you wouldn't have a legal access to.
Closed markets.
DRM issues. Again, without pirates, you can't play you legitimately bought retail copy of Vampire Bloodlines on your computer right now for one.
This is rich given how Sup Forums claims that games older than two years old are not worth playing.
>people on Sup Forums are so retarded that they'll claim this is a good post cause of
I hate this site.
0/10 post.
I installed my VtmB from a DVD I got from some gaming magazine in 2006 on my Win10 without a single issue. In fact it's more stable now than it was on my old PC with XP.
>imagine something that might happen
>get pissed off in advance
Its like you're aggressively bitchy
>Think about it: if pirates were better customers than regular paid consumers, then every single game would be free to play with a "Donate now" box. Even single player games.
Not necessarily. People often fail to acknowledge the desire for control of big companies. We keep acting like companies are perfectly rational. Which, anyone that has worked high enough in a company can attest to, is far from the truth.
Even then, two points: the best customers are pirates doesn't mean all pirates are good customers. And then we don't know that the pirate+buy consuming habit wold translate to equal results to a pirate + donate. That's not a jump you can make that easily.
The abandonware and shovelware communities are kept alive by piracy. I'll agree to that, its the only way to find Mechwarrior 2, 3 and Mechcommander these days
Hope you enjoy your time on reddit, bye now.
Did you use the fan patch?
Because without it the game won't start as far as I know (for accuracy, never tested on win10 myself), given Microsoft has removed from Windows, for security reasons, a component that was used by the DRM of the game. And guess what, without piracy - reworking code against the author's will, there is no fan patch.
>against the author's will
Didn't they actually commend Wesp and even collaborate with him at some point around 2010?
was 32 years ago
No it's not. It's 26.
You can't count for shit.