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Honestly I'm surprised to see so little sympathy for the publishers on a site like this. Aren't most of us making a living (or trying) by selling bits? What w
by io 17y ago
Honestly I'm surprised to see so little sympathy for the publishers on a site like this. Aren't most of us making a living (or trying) by selling bits? What would you do if you were creating software for a market where piracy was easy and rampant? I dislike DRM as much as anybody. I'm not trying to say DRM is good. I'm a casual PC gamer, and I avoid titles with DRM schemes I can't live with. I'm annoyed when that means I'll miss out on a good title. But I can certainly understand the plight of the publishers in an age when piracy has gotten ridiculously easy. I don't want to see PC gaming disappear completely. But when even fellow software creators can't put themselves in the shoes of PC game developers, I fear it's inevitable. Building a profitable PC game business was difficult even when most people paid for them.
- mambodog 17y ago"Aren't most of us making a living (or trying) by selling bits?" The same could be said about the creators of fake (malware) 'tune up utilities', fake AV and spyware tools. Do you defend them too? What Ubisoft are doing is unethical, and I will not defend their doing it simply because its profitable (and even that is questionable).
- io 17y agoI guess I don't understand the comparison you're making. The purveyor of fake tune-up utilities fools unsophisticated consumers into buying something useless, which is obviously unethical. The PC game developer tries to make money on a product that's so desirable, more people steal it than buy it.