🚀 go-pugleaf

On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 08:44:10 +0000, pc games <pcgame...@yahoo.com>
wrote:

> STOP DENYING PIRACY IS A MAJOR PROBLEM IN PC GAMES!
> STOP DENYING PIRACY IS A MAJOR PROBLEM IN PC GAMES!
> STOP DENYING PIRACY IS A MAJOR PROBLEM IN PC GAMES!
> STOP DENYING PIRACY IS A MAJOR PROBLEM IN PC GAMES!

Okay, now you have me curious: did you type in all of the above by
hand, or did you use cut and paste?

Also, the impact of piracy on PC game sales is -- as has been stated
several times already in this thread -- far less than the impact of
various other factors, the most important of which I personally
consider a general lack of balls in the industry. They all cater to an
audience of clue- and penniless 15-year-olds by regurgutating the same
tired tropes again and again, losing the business of their former
customer base, i.e. adult, relatively sophisticated, increasingly
embittered geeks with cravings to satiate and money to spend.

Oh well. Perhaps the same thing will happen to the PC-games industry
as is happening to Hollywood now: as fewer and fewer people show any
interest in dull-witted, empty SFX-dominated "blockbusters" --
partially, I think, because the entertainment preferences of the
masses are being catered to almost fully by celebrity trash culture
and "reality" TV -- there has been a steadily increasing trickle of
more offbeat, niche films (some of them poor, some of them quite good)
emerging from said metaphorical industry centre. Mayhap some new fad
will drive all the little kiddies away someday and make it necessary
for the games companies to start considering its older (former)
clientele again.

Then again, it's easy for the industry to vilify their customers and
blame the perceived slump on precisely the one group of people they
should be catering to. That's corporate thinking for you. A bit like
those obnoxious unskippable anti-piracy trailers you get on DVDs you
*buy*. Ouch!

Anyway, I'm beginning to ramble, which I'll happily leave to someone
who can do that more amusingly and/or insightfully.

Edo