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PSP piracy slowdown: good triumphs over evil |
Listed in: News Tags: John Koller, NPD, piracy, SCEA, Sony
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The good guys are winning. Despite PSP software hardly ever reaching the NPD's monthly top ten, SCEA head of hardware marketing John Koller is glad that piracy has toned down lately. "We've made really no secret (that there) certainly has been some piracy on the PSP," he said. "We've seen that as a significant issue - it's trending down right now, we've seen the piracy not be as such prevalent in the last month to two months, but it has been a problem for us."
Pirates beware, Sony has been keeping an eye on PSP-related message boards and forums on sites that are known to promote piracy. "We’ve noticed there’s kind of a ‘good vs. evil’ battle that we track on many of the forums and many of the pirated web sites," laughed Koller. "It's kind of been nice to see other consumers going and help fight the battle for us."
Well, hats off to the all you real consumers - you deserve much credit for keeping the business alive.
This stuff is definitely not pirated:
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From what I've been reading, Sony is heading in that direction, but it's been like watching them walk through treacle - give the system some time and commitment, and stop with the rubbish "trick" marketing campaigns (allIwantforxma sispsp.com - not cool Sony).
It might also help if Sony stamps out the huge number of websites offering "free" software & movies in exchange for a membership fee - c'mon Sony, you shut down Lik Sang for selling genuine software but let these asshats continue? Get your priorities straight for the love of Christ. The only way I can get the games I really want is to import them from the US and Japan, and if I can't do that, I can either go without or pirate them - stop forcing is into the worst possible choices and let the system breathe.
Rant over.
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But only to some degree.
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Some are worth buying and a lot aren't worth pirating because they suck. I only have like 20 games for it and they're all good. I hardly touch my PSP.
Playing consoles are the new thing.
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"Powerful Corporation VS Cheapass and or Poor Gamer"
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Sony is evil. Not pirates...
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They're just trying to sound as if they've reduced the rates of piracy but the truth is there are just no good games to pirate.
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But brand new Star Ocean and LocoRoco2 at £16 each? Hells yes.
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"4 out of 5 dentists recommend..." sounds great in this context, but do you realize that that only means 80%?
And is it really "3.57 out of 5 dentists recommend..."? Plus are we sure this isn't a blanket statistic where this figure was actually a piece of a larger variety of specifics? I.e., did the dentists surveyed recommend Crest, Aquafresh and Trident over Colgate, Sensodyne and Bubbleishish (or however you spell the damned gum).
The parameters definitely affect the outcome.
Personally... Games for the PSP have slowed to a crawl. If everything in your neighborhood got ripped off and nothing has been put back/replaced, why the hell would the criminals come back?
As for pirates... 3 words... War on Drugs... Its what's called an oxymoron. Everybody that's doing it isn't evil and in moderation it might actually do some good.
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I haven't even turned my PSP on in the past 2 months.
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Pull the other one *****s.
If you want to talk about good vs evil, why not take a long hard look in the mirror and see what morally justified gaming company is handing out credit cards in the middle of a recession.
*****ing retards.
The ONLY reason why piracy *might* be down at the moment is because there's *****all decent gamage worth downloading for the system at the moment.
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cuz they made us happy by inventing the psp.
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