2D Boy on Piracy

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#1  Edited By Alex_V

"Piracy rates have been released before, and there's no difference between World of Goo and other games."

This from 2D Boy's GDC presentation.

Well for the last 6 months the gaming media has been saying the exact opposite (including Giant Bomb). Apologies due, guys?

The upshot is that they are basically inferring that copy protection on PC games is almost totally pointless (World Of Goo had none).

I bought World Of Goo (on PC) because I admire 2D Boy's indie spirit and the approach they have taken. I suggest others do the same - it's a great game.

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#2  Edited By Red

I do feel kinda like a pirate for buying it when it was $5 at that Steam sale.

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#3  Edited By Al3xand3r

I like how the Wii sales were about 60% tops. That means PC sales were 40% of the total. Not bad for a platform often accused as uptight elitist assholes that only play FPS shunning more "casual" games like this. Yet the platform almost matched the platform accused as the most casual of them all. Hur.

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#4  Edited By iamjohn
Alex_V said:
"Well for the last 6 months the gaming media has been saying the exact opposite (including Giant Bomb). Apologies due, guys?"
It just proves they were right in saying that everything should just be on Steam as it's the only copy protection that works.
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#5  Edited By Al3xand3r

Yeah, Steam only games never get pirated. Lol. Multi player games tend to not get pirated as much, whether they use Steam or not, as online cd key checks are enough to stop most people (keygen keys don't work). Of course, there's always hacked servers for hacked copies to play on. But SP? Nothing stops people. So, no, they shouldn't use Steam just for such silly reasons. No DRM is what they should advocate as pirates pirate anyway and piracy doesn't account for lost sales as such douches would just move on to the next game they can pirate rather than pay up if they can't pirate something. If they ever couldn't pirate anything at all they'd probably change hobbies, hah. But that will never happen. So, no DRM is the best policy. Love 2D boy, Stardock, and tons of other companies that follow that. But I'm ok with Steam too.

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The reason I wont buy it is because ir doesn't interest me, even for the low price it is at. I played it once and never played it again, like one of them games you check out and go "thats kool but I ain't playing it again" so for me where money is very tight I'm not going to go wasting any money that I can't afford. If I was a millionaire then sure I'd buy everything. However for me I have to pick and choose the games I buy each year carefully and the games I don't buy I wouldn't have ever bought anyways unless them come on Steam years later in a weekend deal like Bioshock.

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#7  Edited By Alex_V
iAmJohn said:
"Alex_V said:
"Well for the last 6 months the gaming media has been saying the exact opposite (including Giant Bomb). Apologies due, guys?"
It just proves they were right in saying that everything should just be on Steam as it's the only copy protection that works.
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I have to say that is utter nonsense, and I don't believe that is what they are saying at all.
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#8  Edited By cspiffo

My two cents.

I dislike piracy but I hate DRM.  It serves no real purpose but to make things hard for the average joes.  Pirates always get their plunder.