Grand Theft Auto V Earns $800 Million in a Day

Re:Grand Theft Auto V Earns $800 Million in a Day by fmax30 on Thursday September 19, 2013 @07:11AM (#6410917)

News flash , AAA companies don't like to do PC releases because of all the piracy. Hell Let me be honest , every GTA games i had played till San Andreas on the PC was a cracked version. It wasn't that i wanted to get a crack , but the thing was that there was no other option available where i live.

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Re:Grand Theft Auto V Earns $800 Million in a Day by RyanMcGreal on Thursday September 19, 2013 @09:39AM (#6411503)

> It wasn't that i wanted to get a crack , but the thing was that there was no other option available where i live.

Which brings us back to: Piracy is a market failure, not a cultural failure.

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Re:Grand Theft Auto V Earns $800 Million in a Day by kybernetyk on Thursday September 19, 2013 @10:23AM (#6411795)

Theft is a market failure, not a cultural failure.

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Re:Grand Theft Auto V Earns $800 Million in a Day by randomdata on Thursday September 19, 2013 @11:42AM (#6412326)

That is probably true. There is a lot of evidence to suggest that theft happens, by and large, due to poor access to drugs. If the drug market was more efficient, it is possible a lot of those theft crimes would go away.

Of course, theft and copyright infringement are not directly comparable, being quite different concepts.

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Re:Grand Theft Auto V Earns $800 Million in a Day by RyanMcGreal on Thursday September 19, 2013 @10:42AM (#6411912)

Repeat after me: piracy is not theft.

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Re:Grand Theft Auto V Earns $800 Million in a Day by jessaustin on Thursday September 19, 2013 @11:23AM (#6412159)

To be precise, "piracy" isn't even piracy. After all, it's not murder, kidnapping, and plunder on the high seas.

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Re:Grand Theft Auto V Earns $800 Million in a Day by RyanMcGreal on Thursday September 19, 2013 @12:51PM (#6412762)

Thank you - you're quite right. I should have written, "copying isn't theft".

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Re:Grand Theft Auto V Earns $800 Million in a Day by twerquie on Thursday September 19, 2013 @01:04PM (#6412831)

It shouldn't be a surprise to you that words can have more than one meaning.

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Re:Grand Theft Auto V Earns $800 Million in a Day by Shorel on Thursday September 19, 2013 @01:58PM (#6413164)

This one is by design.

'Piracy' was defined as copyright violation by the copyright holders, not by general usage.

Therefore, we should fight that usage, just to compensate the balance.

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Re:Grand Theft Auto V Earns $800 Million in a Day by twerquie on Monday September 30, 2013 @09:51AM (#6469586)

I follow but disagree. The world's largest and most successful torrent site calls itself The Pirate Bay. There are political "Pirate Parties" in Canada and Sweden. It may have been a pejorative label initially, but file sharers have "owned" the name and made it their own.

That's exactly how language is defined; by popular usage, not by design.

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Re:Grand Theft Auto V Earns $800 Million in a Day by jessaustin on Thursday September 19, 2013 @11:21AM (#6412148)

Unfortunately your attempted reductio ad absurdum doesn't quite get to the absurdum point.

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Re:Grand Theft Auto V Earns $800 Million in a Day by fmax30 on Thursday September 19, 2013 @10:57AM (#6412003)

Well if you think about it , the markets here could easily import the games ( they do import the PS3 games ) but they choose not to import PC games because they know it will be cracked in time. So basically it was in fact cultural failure which lead to market failure .

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Re:Grand Theft Auto V Earns $800 Million in a Day by DigitalSea on Thursday September 19, 2013 @06:00PM (#6414592)

You do realise this argument is null and void? GTA V for XBOX 360 leaked onto torrent websites days before the game was even officially released. If this is the argument companies are using for delaying the release of PC games or not releasing them at all, I think that's weak.

Look at Watch Dogs. Another open world hacker-esque game and it's coming out on consoles and PC on the same date. Rockstar are a much bigger company with more resources and bigger budgets to develop for multi-platforms. They are a console oriented company, but I remember when GTA was much bigger on PC than any console back in the 1,2 and 3 days especially.

Well, put it this way. If there are plans for next gen, we'll definitely get a PC person as they are effectively the same in many ways.

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Re:Grand Theft Auto V Earns $800 Million in a Day by talmand on Thursday September 19, 2013 @11:01AM (#6412031)

I'm failing to understand your point. Almost every version of GTA has been released on the PC. How was there no option where you lived? Are you meaning you couldn't purchase it at your local stores before mail-order was available?

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