This should have been done years ago. As for security... seriously, who cares? Pirates will find a way to crack anything and already have regardless of this - its not going to change anything.
" Calling them "Defence of the Ancients-style games" is as silly as the way they used to call first-person shooters "Doom clones". Just call them Tower Defence games, Brad. "
Anyone who played and loved DotA (and still does, but I play Heroes of Newerth) knows that League of Legends is NOT the next DotA. Nor is the original guy who created DotA (Euls) is working at Riot. Guinsoo took over Euls and developed DotA:Allstars for a while until he got a job at Riot. If anything, I'd stick with Heroes.
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" You are not a bad guy just maybe next time you should think before you post something. As someone who is jewish it makes me sick that people are still using that term. Just like any other racial slur. "
Not everyone has those same morals, if this was a year ago or so I would of probably been all ... [more]
Not everyone has good morals either. I'm looking at this from a realistic point of view. I do agree that most of the Sims players are the casuals who don't even know that torrents exist, but I'm talking about piracy as a whole. It does affect sales of a game, the question is - how much?
"It was released late in the run-up to Christmas which is the most expensive time of year for a vast majority of people."
I find this hilarious because Christmas and the holiday season in general is when most developers release their games because they sell well. How is a $50 game considered "expensive" if you can stack it up against gifts such as a $200+ ipod or console?
"When Crysis was released there was a lot of other A+ titles released around the same time"
Crysis is considered an A-A+ title. Go to gamerankings.com and look at the reviews.
"Crytek and EA themselves had predicted low sales for the game. It did infact sell better than expected and they were still not happy."
I'd like to see the sources for this.
Overall I agree that piracy is not the SOLE factor of why Crysis sold poorly but it was a big one. Your "facts" don't really prove anything and you aren't a developer for Crytek so it just seems to me like you are just spewing out speculation and using them as valid points.
@Subject2Change "However someone with the intention of potentially buying something but deciding against is a loss of sale"
Thank you. I have the intention of buying Sims 3 - oh but wait, the torrent is already up? Alright! Since it's a single player game and it's EA anyway I'll just go ahead and download it. <-- You can't tell me that that is not a LOSS of a sale. There are plenty of people that ride that boat. It seems to me that everyone on here that is saying piracy has no affect on sales just doesn't want to believe it. Well, guess what? It's a reality. Get over it.
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