Piracy Helping Larger Game Developers?

Carlos Camacho writes "Piracy has been in the news recently within the game developer, and game player communities. You've seen all arguments against piracy in the past... Or have you? GBA and Mac game developer Aaron Fothergill of Strange Flavour Software wrote iDevGames a guest-editorial that will hopefully lead more users who copy games to re-think exactly it is that they are hurting. 'One of tenets of the software thief, is that "software is too expensive." They will then usually go on to bemoan how the 'giants' of the industry treat users unfairly and how stealing their software is their way of getting at 'the man.' Unfortunately, little do they realise, that the opposite is happening! Instead, rampant software theft benefits the 100 stone gorillas at the expense of new products that would otherwise be able to compete on price and features, resulting in only the big monopolistic companies keeping their products in the market and being able to control it'."

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Re:Not So Obvious

[Goldberg's Pants]

1) Who said I bought it.
2) I already have a PC.
3) I can't afford a console, or more specifically the obscene prices for the games, nor do I have anywhere to actually put one.
4) Since I live overseas from my friends, a console is a shitty idea.
5) Who gives a fuck about social. I play games to get away from it all.
6) Fuck off, console loving whore.