"99% of people who pirate movies, music, games are not criminal people"
PCGMedia interviews Johan Andersson, Paradox Development Studio's Studio Manager about piracy, the tablet gaming market, and working within a niche.
Today Paradox Interactive announced that it's parting ways with its subsidiary studio Harebrained Schemes effective January 1, 2024.
I mean it wasn't that intelligent to begin with, release it exclusive to the system that doesn't buy games. Plus it was on gamepass if I'm not mistaken. It's been a minute since I had mine on cause I just wrapped up chrono cross on ps5 but remember looking forward to checking this out on the Xbox. Try it on xbox if I liked it I would've bought on ps
Paradox Interactive appears to be about to reveal something mysterious next week. It could be a new Civilization-style game, or something else entirely.
Besides its 11 active games, Swedish video game publisher Paradox Interactive currently has a staggering 13 brand-new titles in development.
I didn't realize that digital theft wasn't criminal...
He makes a good point, I have always felt that there is quite a difference between the person that steals a DVD from a Walmart vs a person who downloads it online. Just from personal exp in retail people who steal 'can' tend to be violent and do tend to have a kind of stereotype around them.
I think everyone will agree that since the turn of the digital age we have not done a good job of defining and enforcing what it means to 'pirate' I really is not stealing in the tangable sence.
I could go on forever, I'd love to hear N4G's users thoghts on it as it is something we talk about all the time at work since our next game will be digital only. Everyone here is divided on the issue. Might need to do a ARA soon on the issue. (Ask Redit Anything.) new term just came up with it!
it isnt so easy to explain but yi-lonmg is partially correct, the same way we go to youtube anbd listen to music instead of buying albums, just look at mp3's who hasnt downloaded a mp3 at one point or another, now its expected to be on youtube, so those artists work for far less the before, are we all criminals?
My argument has always been try before you buy and most AAA movies these days are absolute dog shit so they deserve to be pirated.
I'm sorry silent negotiator your view is very short sighted... Do you not see that the piracy committed by children of the 80s and 90s helped grow the consumer base to what is today. Also f2p can be a viable model IF the actual game is decent (tribes ascend). Make a great game and people Will want to spend money on it and the market is so large now it can support that. Too many games released by large publishers are sub standard or "unfinished" and they still expect us to pay 30-40 quid for them.
The market now is so large I find it ridiculous when publishers go on about lost sales of films when some films make over a billion dollars now and that's just box office takings.. They then sell dvds/blurays and then sell it to tv companies around the world after that. The mpaa still go on about how they are being hard done by with regards to piracy. The market for games is almost as large albeit without the "3 tierd" payment model.. Let me ask you all though... If there was no money to be made in games, film or music do think people would still make them? The answer is yes. Musicians would still make music, devs would still make games and film makers would still make films... Because they are artists and to some the love is worth more than all the money in the world... Wow I've really gone off the subject! I don't think I even have a point anymore.. Apologies