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Cool anecdote, sounds like an elegant way to deal with the griefing problem. I think there is more to this pirating scenario though. A lot of people probably p
by ChrisDutrow 11y ago
Cool anecdote, sounds like an elegant way to deal with the griefing problem.
I think there is more to this pirating scenario though. A lot of people probably pirate games because because they aren't sure if they will like them. Once they are at the point where they are losing the game because of the pirated version, they already know they like it. Some of the people who get to this point will want to pay the $8 because they won't want to risk putting more effort into the game and losing progress again because of the pirating. Other people will be more comfortable paying because they no longer have to worry about paying for a game that they won't play.
Even if they convert only 10% of the pirates, they will have increased their sales more than 33%, making them over $800,000 more money.
- supermatt 11y agoYeah, i definitely agree with the premise, but as soon as that alert pops up, people would rate the torrent/whatever and say its a bad copy, and then future pirates would download an alternate seed. Maybe they could "leak" a few different torrents in future and do some testing! :)
- ChrisDutrow 11y agoAh, interesting. I'm not super familiar with torrents and didn't know about that feature. I suppose he could release many versions with their own unique hashes. Would people be less likely to put the effort into creating a cracked version if they felt there were already a lot out there? I always wondered who does software cracking and how hard it is.