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Opinion: 'Casual Games and Piracy: The Truth '

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2008-02-13 00:00:22 by Simon Carless in GameSetWatch
...piracy in PC casual gaming? In a startling instalment of his regular Gamasutra column, Reflexive's director of marketing Russell Carroll ( Wik, Ricochet ) reveals the 92% piracy rate for one of his company's games, and what worked (and didn't work) when they tried to fix it It looks like around 92% of the people playing the full version of...
 
Tags: casual games, casual, casual games space, piracy, games, free, drm-free version, obsolete sales flat, obsolete sales
 
 
 
 
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Opinion: No More Excuses On PC Piracy

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2008-08-06 16:00:11 by Simon Carless in GameSetWatch
...piracy as a primary reason why the format generally enjoys less success than console titles -- in this opinion piece, Gamasutra's Chris Remo passionately deconstructs the usual gamer arguments that aim to minimize piracy's impact Every time a developer brings up the reality of extensive game piracy on the PC -- and recent examples include not...
 
Tags: piracy, full-scale game developers, game developers, developers, extensive game piracy, game sales languish, game sales, game, console piracy exists
 
 
 
 
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Opinion: Piracy & Casual Games - The Follow-Up

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2008-02-27 16:00:33 by Simon Carless in GameSetWatch
...piracy, the Reflexive Entertainment marketing director adds lots more hard statistics in this follow-up piece - definitely appreciate him being so honest with explicit statistics My recent casual gaming column published over at Gamasutra, has created a good bit of stir, so I thought I'd put in some additional details as a follow-up and...
 
Tags: piracy, piracy stats, follow-up, fix, drm fix, stop piracy, casual, fight piracy, original article
 
 
 
 
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Noted Developer: Dont Blame Piracy for Poor PC Game Sales

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2008-03-24 14:47:11 by GamePolitics in GamePolitics.com
...piracy and PC gaming Writing for his Opinionated techie blog, Wardell says that bad games and excessive hardware requirements - not piracy -are the primary villains in poor sales of PC titles Recently there has been a lot of talk about how piracy affects PC gaming. And if you listen to game developers, it apparently is a foregone conclusion -...
 
Tags: game industry reservation, game industry, game, industry, piracy, game explicitly, game developers, games, piracy affects
 
 
 
 
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Is Games Piracy Overblown?

2008-08-31 06:14:58 by Billy Kirk in Video Game Media Watch - The Video Game Journalism Review
 
...piracy may very likely be much-ado-about-not-that-much Fahey begins the article by outlining the two scenarios of piracy, as follows If piracy really is slashing hundreds of millions of dollars out of revenue figures, then it represents a problem which threatens the existence of companies and the livelihoods of workers. In that instance, even...
 
Tags: piracy, games piracy, piracy issue, software piracy, revenue neutral activity, revenue, games, revenue figures, figure
 
 
 
 
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id Software: Piracy pushed us multiplatform

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2007-03-11 01:05:39 by admin in
...piracy on the internet. During his speech, Hollenshead revealed that, although they are still primarily a PC developer, id Software had begun to look at console game releases as a way to financially combat piracy Piracy has pushed id as being multiplatform, Hollenshead said, noting that the current project Enemy Territory: Quake Wars is being...
 
Tags: piracy, videogame piracy, combat piracy, console piracy, dead mans chest, console game releases, lecture, hollensheads lecture, companys experiences
 
 
 
 
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Piracy destroying PC gaming says Crytek

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2008-05-01 13:06:42 by Atul in Gaming Blog
...piracy reached an epidemic level long-time back but since the likes of PS consoles werenât as popular as PC games, the manufacturers continued to develop products. The stance has changed from thereon and now the PC game developers choose the games to be released very carefully. For one, there is a lot of competition and two, piracy is a...
 
Tags: piracy, videogame piracy, games, huge piracy, similar games, piracy margin, margin, games inherently destroy, game developers
 
 
 
 
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Piracy destroying PC gaming says Crytek

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2008-05-01 13:06:42 by Atul in Gaming Blog
...piracy reached an epidemic level long-time back but since the likes of PS consoles werenât as popular as PC games, the manufacturers continued to develop products. The stance has changed from thereon and now the PC game developers choose the games to be released very carefully. For one, there is a lot of competition and two, piracy is a...
 
Tags: piracy, videogame piracy, games, huge piracy, similar games, piracy margin, margin, games inherently destroy, game developers
 
 
 
 
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Piracy destroying PC gaming says Crytek

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2008-05-01 13:06:42 by Atul in Gaming Blog
...piracy reached an epidemic level long-time back but since the likes of PS consoles werenât as popular as PC games, the manufacturers continued to develop products. The stance has changed from thereon and now the PC game developers choose the games to be released very carefully. For one, there is a lot of competition and two, piracy is a...
 
Tags: piracy, videogame piracy, games, huge piracy, similar games, piracy margin, margin, games inherently destroy, game developers
 
 
 
 
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Piracy destroying PC gaming says Crytek

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2008-05-01 13:06:42 by Atul in Gaming Blog
...piracy reached an epidemic level long-time back but since the likes of PS consoles werenât as popular as PC games, the manufacturers continued to develop products. The stance has changed from thereon and now the PC game developers choose the games to be released very carefully. For one, there is a lot of competition and two, piracy is a...
 
Tags: piracy, videogame piracy, games, huge piracy, similar games, piracy margin, margin, games inherently destroy, game developers