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Re:Pirates playing a game dev simulator complain about piracy by ekianjo on Monday April 29, 2013 @06:49AM (#5625283)
Yeah, and its more or less the same thing as Hollywood claiming piracy or copying destroys their industry. I think in general game developers miss the point about piracy: - its free advertising. Just like radio is for music. - maybe pirates will not buy your game this time but they may buy the next. - simply your game is not attractive enough and most people dont want to spend any money on it. It's not because your game is cheap that it's worth buying.

If you complain so much about piracy, go in free to play mode and make your fans buy extensions or addons. This is known to work well if your game is designed around it.

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Re:Pirates playing a game dev simulator complain about piracy by shpiel on Monday April 29, 2013 @07:10AM (#5625352)
This is a false equivalency. Musicians can opt out of having their music played on the radio. If they do choose to have their music played on the radio, there is a genuine attempt made by radio stations to track how often their music is played and make a commensurate royalty payment to the artist. (source I worked on college radio).
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Re:Pirates playing a game dev simulator complain about piracy by ekianjo on Tuesday April 30, 2013 @04:02AM (#5630920)
Well, OK, but then nothing prevents anyone from copying the radio stream in one way or another and playing it over and over again for free without telling the artists. It still remains "free" in that sense.
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