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Taken from NAG. August Edition.

"Copy protection experts Macrovision held a survey amongst some of the leading games sites to determine how much gamers get pirated games and how often. An astounding 52% og the 2219 gamers that reponded admit to having recieved cracked software; 33% of those have whole ISO images(a single file that can be written to cd). 15% of gamers have recieved 15 or more pirated games over th last 2 years. This report comes in wake of the ESA's serious look at piracy. They reckon that the industry looses $3 billion a rear to it. Macrovision agrees, adding that the longer a game takes to be cracked, the more revenue the publisher gets [Doom 3 was cracked hours after it's unofficial release -Pr13sT]. Most of the people polled would not wait longer than 6 weeks to get a free copy of a game instead of buying it."

There is no peace without war!!!
 
its not only the price, sometimes we have to wait a very very long time before a game hits SA's shores...
 
I recently downloaded Ultima Online from the internet to play on the new SGS server as its not available anywhere in SA. I would have bought it, but I cant find it...
 
Lol, I was reading that dooms 3 was available on bit torrant about 2 hours after the unofficial release. It was freely downloadable on the net. Just over that time and there where 5000 people pulling the file, 120min!!! Times that by R300. That is R1500000 lost! If any thing the figures there are underestimated. Did I mension that that was 2 hours!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There is no peace without war!!!
 
Well, it can't be that bad. After all, they still exist. Rest assured the Americans will pay. They can afford to ;)

"Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness, experiencing itself subjectively. There's no such thing as death - life is only a dream - and we're the imagination of ourselves.” – Bill Hicks
 
Not everyone who downloads the game would have bought it, so it can't really count as lost revenue. I do believe that if you download a game and really enjoy it that you should purchase the original to support the company. A lot of people who usually pirate games are buying Doom 3 cause it's an awesome game. I really don't think the guys at id will lose much sleep over the piracy. I'm sure they anticipated it happening anyway and thus didn't waste time on implementing strong protection.

Games are a strange beast, it's not like other software where you pretty much know what you're getting. A game can be awesome or it can suck large (Daikatana anyone? [;)]). I wouldn't want to spend R300-R600 on what is essentially a Lucky Packet, I'd rather use the money on recreational substances. I know a lot of companies release demos for their games but these often hide the mediocrity of the full versions. I'd rather try out the full version and then decide if it's worth my hard earned cash, companies that make sucky games certainly don't deserve it!
 
Agreed. The same goes for music. Some musicians actually think that their sales improved because of their music being freely available online for listeners to sample. I think Greenday or some other band mentioned this.

I buy alot of cd's and movies that I have listened to on MP3. I also do not have enough money to buy all the music out there that I like. I do spend as much as I can afford though on legal music.

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Antowan

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<br />Not everyone who downloads the game would have bought it, so it can't really count as lost revenue. I do believe that if you download a game and really enjoy it that you should purchase the original to support the company.
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### What we need in South Africa is cheap 24/7, always on Internet for under R300 a month. ###
 
well, here is my take on the situation...

Most games seem to be taking an online multiplayer stance over the internet. If you have a pirated copy, you wont be able to play as the CD Key will be invalid... thus you have to purchase the original game to obtain a unique CD Key (This is if there isnt some type of CD Key generator that you can download)...

I dont quite agree with Antowan about the music... using mp3's, you can make a custom CD of your choice to play in your CD player! Thus every song on the CD is one you enjoy :) You dont have to continuously press the 'skip' button. I think the music industry has lost out quite alot...

On a side note, when my brother and I were younger... we always used to buy those shoddy 8 and 16 bit games for consoles. We never got that much money, so it took us a while to save up. Often we would buy a game that looked great, BUT it was down right nasty or you passed the game in less than an hour. So... this would mean a big waste of money for us... BUT we devised a fool proof method of swopping games... You would be amazed what putting your hated game in the microwave for 1 second does... LOL! It leaves absolutely no visible damage on the game or the chips... the game stopped working all together :) We always got our money back or swopped the game... hehehehe
 
Doom 3 can be bought at top-cd for R350. I`m an old pirate and i`m gonna buy the game. I do agree with the try b4 u buy and that most is not the plastic worth they r printed on.
 
Yes I agree I have original Diablo 2 had 1 lost it. Got Original Warcraft 3 and Frozen Throne EXp
blizzard games are quality. I like it, I wanted to Play on Bnet so now I got originals.

..- dot dot dash ;)
 
I think ID should have released a demo for people to get a taste of it. The piracy was so widespread because people anticipated so much as they didn't get a demo
 
well everyone who downloaded doom in SA paid their price for it. Everyone on adsl Paid Approx. R125 (+- 2gigs of their cap). There was a hidden cost involved. So they might of bought the game had the game been R150 but oh well

..- dot dot dash ;)
 
well look at it this way, how did the cracker get hold of the game before it hit the shelves. THEY Stole it. So if one manages to keep the game or any other anticipated product away from the crackers then maybe this before release cracks wont happen

If you Love it let it go, if it comes back then it love you. If not hunt it down and kill it
 
I don't think the game was leeked to a cracker. the game was released on the 6 August in the states. Unofficially of course but still released. ID should really have used there budget a bit more wisely and instead of putting 90% budget into graphic design, 5% on creative story line, 4% Hardware surveys and 1% on secutity issues. The game was just cracked in a couple hours simple as that.

I hate Steam(valves content delivery system) but as far as anti piracy is going it is what I can see happening with all games. So viva la cap when u have to buy a code and the download the game.

There is no peace without war!!!
 
well im an anime trader and just the simple fact of our anime industry( if u can call it that) is so appaling that the only way any anime lovers usually get our stuff is by making communities and trading amongst ourselves.
just the fact that for most animes for 1 dvd with 4 eps on it its gonna cost u at least 300 bucks where most animes have 26 eps in it. come on the chances of me having that much dough lying around is highly unlikely.

Proud South african rip offs.
 
as in organised chaos?&gt;??? if thats what u mean then i am going to the one this weekend hopefully.
im always interested in finding more traders hehe

Proud South african rip offs.
 
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