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Earlier quoted context omitted.
Which is also a completely unsourced number.
It's an estimate with a solid base: http://2dboy.com/2008/11/13/90/
I guess it boils down to how many of those pirates you think were ever potential customers. Assuming piracy was theoretically impossible, how many would've purchased it rather than not play at all?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Which is also a completely unsourced number.
It's an estimate with a solid base: http://2dboy.com/2008/11/13/90/
Ergo, 95% of your users are not your customers.
It could be that a lot of customers buy the boxed product, then install the warez version because it doesn't have any DRM associated with it. This doesn't clarify how they know the games are pirated. Ubisoft is one of the worst offenders lately when it comes to treating their customers like criminals. Even products bought through Steam have all kinds of added on DRM and CD-Key nonsense.
I've already passed on several games because of this. Some game publishers believe that you can turn 1 out of 1000 pirates into paying customers [1]; it stuns me that Ubisoft ignores how invasive DRM can turn away a significant fraction of potential customers.
1. http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=17350
Aside from the number being pulled from their asses, Ubisoft is continuously one of the worst publishers in terms of utilizing harsh DRM. I wouldn't be shocked that people go out of their way to pirate Ubisoft games. I know I haven't bought anything Ubisoft in a long time.
I cannot understand the responses from people here and on reddit stating that the figure is totally made up and it can't be that much. reddit specifically is filled with people who are proud of how they pirate all ubisoft games because of the "terrible DRM". Indie games that have no DRM and great prices[1] have reported very high piracy rates, published games that have no DRM and very high ratings also have bad pirac…
It's just like music:
1. AAA titles without paying a cent 2. Innovation, but not too much (being a newbie is a cardinal sin, remember?) 3. No DLC, just free content released periodically afterwards
Piracy does quite a number on people with existing entitlement issues.
I cannot understand the responses from people here and on reddit stating that the figure is totally made up and it can't be that much. reddit specifically is filled with people who are proud of how they pirate all ubisoft games because of the "terrible DRM". Indie games that have no DRM and great prices[1] have reported very high piracy rates, published games that have no DRM and very high ratings also have bad pirac…
You are lost again citric. This is hackernews, not reddit.
I cannot understand the responses from people here and on reddit stating that the figure is totally made up and it can't be that much. reddit specifically is filled with people who are proud of how they pirate all ubisoft games because of the "terrible DRM". Indie games that have no DRM and great prices[1] have reported very high piracy rates, published games that have no DRM and very high ratings also have bad pirac…
> I cannot understand the responses from people here on reddit You are lost again citric. This is hackernews, not reddit.
Let's take this problem out of the gaming/IT industry altogether. The last time you went to Costco (for non-Americans, it's large warehouse grocery chain), did you see the throngs of people waiting to take whatever free sample was being cooked up? And how many of those people ever actually pay for the real product? Maybe Costco has the conversion rates, but I bet they're wildly unreliable. IMHO, what I tend to see are a bunch of freeloaders who will take anything that is free and then leave when the offer is made to purchase the product.
Free-to-play, free-to-sample, it's all the same thing.