Fernando Blanco From Electric Avenue said - "Video game makers have long maintained that piracy is a significant problem, and that the illegal downloading of their products represents a major threat to the industry. While it is agreed that illegal downloading is widespread, the data is inconclusive, and sometimes contradictory."
A shout-out to all the expansions that treat us right.
Red Dead Redemption (which becomes available on Xbox One Backwards Compatibility tomorrow) is now available for pre-load on your Xbox One. This news comes via ICXM, who received a tip. Additionally, the game’s multiplayer DLC is now free.
Nice, will buy it now then.
Pretty sweet multiplayer dlc is free too. Will help its online playerbase.
Can someone approve this before the DLC might not be free anymore?
Multiplayer is broken. 25 mins to get into free roam, there was no one in it. Loaded up the character customisation thing...or tried to. Quit the fame after 9 mins of loading. In total about 35 mins I managed to take one step.
DLC is becoming increasingly unjustifiable in an industry struggling to produce premier AAA titles. Publishers are treating gamers like idiots.
Turns out they've been extrapolating statistics to make the problem seem bigger than it actually is, No surprises there.
There was an article on here recently where an indie developer released a cracked version of his game along with the genuine copy. He found that the vast majority of people playing the game had downloaded the cracked version rather than buying the genuine version.
"he study concluded that previously released data tended to exaggerate the scale of the problem, but that illegal file sharing of video games was nevertheless prevalent. Microsoft and Sony are currently preparing the release of their next generation of consoles, which are expected to include a raft of new anti-piracy safeguards."
Is the factor of venture capitalists are the one's writing the check so as to get these iP's done for the consumer!
you can have all the download data , and explain how its blown way out of blown way out of proportion, wrap it up in a tight lil bow if you want . and it still does not take away from the fact that if there is more software that you have spent investing in and it ends up in more hands than the sales of retail or Downloaded copy's, than that is a problem for some venture capitalists. Than you have to pitch the idea again to new venture capitalists and Hope they invest. After a while they than cut your budget so as to gather more ROI because they expect the project to be done with less money because "the consumer does not care to pay for it anyway" so why invest into it if they will just dump the content online and the people will not care about the quality anyway because its not worth a purchase.
vicious circle is what it is
Enter sanctimonious gaming bloggers: "RPG Genre Dying Because of Piracy"
Demos... where have the demos gone? I bet that would at least slightly cut down on piracy...