🚀 go-pugleaf

Edo wrote:
> 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.


Personally I think you said it pretty well.