Engaging Debate on Piracy and Videogaming

koworld writes "WotR have put out a really intriguing issue on piracy this week. It has Jeff Minter arguing that piracy robs developers of their livelihoods and then a senior industry figure (writing under a pseudonym) offers the counter that piracy has done more to expand the overall videogaming market than any other factor. Just to round off the debate a number of insightful personal accounts of piracy and its effects are also included."

Comments

Re:Piracy, Price, and P2P, 4 Peas in a Pod

[Anonymous Coward]

I think a lot of pirating is directly related to price.

I think it's increased because of iPods

Re:Piracy, Price, and P2P, 4 Peas in a Pod

[Anonymous Coward]

Honeslty, you should take them with you to the store and show them how to demagnetize the cases the video games come in. Then they steal themselves and if they get caught... they're minors right... so no big deal!

Also, every night tell them "boys, pay as much as you feel is appropriate and then take what you want after that."

Companies could take the Derek Smart approach

[Lord Kano]

by making their games so complicated and in depth that you NEED to have the manual to play it.

Then again, even with the rampant piracy of Doom and the Quake series in their day, I doubt that iD would trade places with 3000AD.

LK