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Bohemia Interactive: 97% of gamers are pirates |
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Bohemia Interactive, creators of the ARMA series and Take On Helicopters, have come out to legitimise their recent pirate fightin' technology by saying that three to a hundred of buyers are pirates. So that means there will be 100 people who pirate the game and out of those, only three will actually buy the game or will have bought the game. So essentially for every thousand pirates, there are only thirty people who will buy the game...I was never great at math.
These are statistics coming from Bohemia Interactive's CEO Marek Spanel who has the proof to back it up as the recent statistics from their multiplayer show that for every 3 legit gamers who buy the game, are in multiplayer, but they also see the 100 people who pirated the game and fail to get into their servers.
Bohemia Interactive is humble about the DRM situation and I honestly think that the DEGRADE DRM is one of the smartest things PC devs have done. They know they "will never stop piracy" but they still are making a stand that it's not right and has a negative impact on PC developement, other than in the PR department.
Španěl explained their DRM DEGRADE saying that it's a bit unorthodox but points out the games from their online store are DRM free and they have plans to remove the DRM some time after the game's release...which is probably when the game will be pirated and skyrocket in terms of downloads.
Via [GamesIndustry.Biz]
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Title: 3/100 are pirates
Article: 3/100 are legit, so 97/100 are pirates.
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so there will be 3 pirates to 100 legit gamers?
Doesn't matter anyway... if devs didn't shit on the consumer then this wouldn't be a problem.
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We buy what we like, not every crap you throw at us.
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People really should start just doing this legit. The reason DRM started was because piracy took advantage of the lack of such measures.
Pirates should stop trying to justify their actions with "we do it because of the DRM", when DRM was started due to those faggots.
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On that note, I deal with stats for a living. One (relatively) small company (since I've never heard of them before) says that, based on the stats for their games (which I've also never heard about before), there's 100 pirates for every 3 people who buy games? Either they're doing some overzealous exaggeration (since I'm sure their stats are NOT generalizable to gamers as a whole, across all platforms), or this article is obscuring facts, and leaving some pretty crucial contextualizati on out.
Frankly, neither would really surprise me.
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Yeah you guys got some of the spot light with that documentary farce but just go away already. I'd pull out as an investor because you aren't going to sell anything acting like a 40yr old baby. You should just retire.
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Using the word foreigner on the internet lol
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out of the 97 users that get rejected I reckon that it's at least 3 ten year old's clicking the multi-player button again and again.
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Christ, even MW3 has made over $700 mil...
And seriously, stop wasting R&D time and money on even thinking about DRM. It's pointless as it will always be cracked. I would have thought companies would have figured this out by now.
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ok, this means your games suck, pure and simple, 100 people download it and only 3 think its worth any money.
if it wasn't for piracy, you dev's wouldn't even have to try to make a good game, just make the cover look good.
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...unless its a space simulator game...
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Stop bitching and produce quality games, douchebag dev.
Just another dick blaming piracy for their shitty games.
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What will i do to the DVD Huh?
Go F##K Yourself Bohemia!
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