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Shawk wrote:
> JAB wrote:
>> Shawk wrote:
>>> Andrew wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 14 Sep 2008 09:49:00 -0600 (MDT), DC
>>>> <nobody@pseudo.borked.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> "Spore: Most Pirated Game Ever, Thanks to DRM" - http://atu.ca/675
>>>>
>>>> Spore: Most Pirated Game Ever, by a bunch of thieves pretending they
>>>> are on a moral crusade.
>>>>
>>>> No wonder PC gaming is dying.
>>>
>>>
>>> Absolutely they should have bought the game if they're going to play 
>>> it but I do have to wonder.  Is there any merit to the argument that 
>>> people that might normally have bought the game, that might normally 
>>> be averse to d-loading something for free are now getting so fed up 
>>> that they're looking to d-load because of DRM?  I'd certainly be 
>>> interested to see an independent study of that.
>>
>> Unfortunately the whole article has the air of trying to justify why 
>> someone is right to pirate a game ... to me it's just a really weird 
>> sense of logic that can come to this conclusion.
> 
> 
> Its that kind of site though Jab - pro-sharing.
> 
> That's why I'd like to see an independent study - I think it'd be of 
> interest to publishers and devs.  I'm sure that a number of people who 
> read the outcry on Amazon and other sites but were looking forward to 
> the game may well have though I wonder how hard bit-torrent actually is 
> to use?
> 
> Walt's confident that no decent person would be driven to behaving like 
> a criminal even if people consistently treat them as criminals and I'm 
> sure he's right for a percentage of people.  Andrew has a good, common 
> sense point but I'm not sure that 'if' normal non-thieving bastards 
> suddenly decide to d-load Azureus of UTorrent because they've had enough 
> of DRM whether they are bothered about sending a message or just want to 
> play.
> 
> This game is the wrong one for such a study anyway by the sound of it. 
> Even without DRM it hasn't turned out to be much of a game and I'm not 
> sure 'any' of those million d-loaders would have paid for it...
> 

Like all these things trying to work out the real figures is going to be 
difficult as a simple example I'm one of those d/l but I also bought the 
game - Amazon's predicted delivery time was way to long! Saying that I 
can see there being people that because of the hype surrounding the DRM 
then justified pirating the game because of that or even didn't realise 
that sites like pirate bay even existed. In the end the sales figures 
that will really count.

Oh and as a game I really like it if you can get past the it's more a 
pastime than a normal game IMHO. I liken it to something that's easy 
just to spend the odd hour here and there just playing around with. I 
love STALKER but it's nice to have something "fun" to play occasionally.