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Originally Posted by MMM
These are just crocodile tears. This is 2009, so you know what, I try out my games too? I do. They are called "demos" and almost all games have them. I don't have to steal the game to "try it out". Don't believe warez and pirate sites. There is no 24 hour "rule". So yes, I agree, pirated games increases publicity....among other pirates. I can read reviews, play demos, watch online videos, try in store, discuss a game online and do all kinds of things to determine if I want to buy a game that aren't illegal. I don't buy that many games a year, so when I do, I make sure it is something that I am going to want to play. Easy to do these days, legally.
Don't confuse manufacturing and making a game. Manufactoring is inexpensive...probably less than a couple dollars a game. But making a game (like a movie) is very expensive. Players demand more, and costs go up. It's funny, because I think the Atari 2600 games cost 40 dollars when they came out in the late 70s and here in the late 2000s games don't cost much more than that. The prices of DVDs has actually gone down in the past 10 years.
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Yes, most games have demo's, but most of the time they dont give you the features you want or the taste of the game you need.
Services like gamefly hurt and help the industry, you can rent a game sure. But with that rented game you can just rip it with the stock DVD burner on your computer and make it for the same price you payed to rent it..double edged sword in many cases.
And for me, I choose not to buy many games because I know that the ones that maybe only I will like, I wont be playing as much as say, street fighter IV. Espicially older games, you cant even find some 360 games in stores or on eBay, the only places i really trust to buy games. So I have to resort to pirating them just so I can play a game that nobody else liked, the producers got screwed in making the game on way or another, if nobody buys a copy of Battle Fantsia then the producers aren't going to get money, if people weren't going to buy it anyways, the pirates are just putting them deeper in the hole. I can go on both sides in this argument and most likely will throughout the rest of this thread.
I have to agree with you on online videos though, video reviews, even ones from random people can be great.
But of course, cost always comes back into the matter. I play fighting games competitivly, that means I cant play at the top of my skill, with out one of these.
Thats a Hori Real Arcade Pro 3 arcade stick. Which runs me about $120 before modding it. Which cost's me $3 per button, $30 for a better joystick, the labor of adding the LED's into it, which are about a dollar a peice, and getting the custom art printed on it so when I go to Evo or any other big tourny, it dosen't get stolen or mistaken for someone elses, thats $10 for Kinko's printing. Though. I would much rather spend ALL that money, then spending maybe $40 for...well...THIS.
That thing probably broke after the first godamn H.SRK FADC into Ultra.