Buy a Piece of Acclaim

An anonymous reader writes "Kotaku points to the official auction site for Acclaim, the game publisher that was. The Auction includes the building and everything that was in it, including arcade games, boardroom tables, an odd collection of football helmets and 43,000 copies of video games." Our previous story of their bankruptcy.

Comments

Re:Done in by the people who would buy this stuff

[kiddygrinder]

Acclaim blew up because their games sucked ass. If everyone had to pay for their copy of BMX XXX i think they'd still pretty much be screwed.

Re:Done in by the people who would buy this stuff

[Anonymous Coward]

Eh? Acclaim went bankrupt because they released a string of shitty and mediocre games. Piracy didn't lose them sales because no one was going to buy BMX XXX to begin with

Re:Done in by the people who would buy this stuff

[Hobadee]

Here's my point of view on the whole matter:
I'm 19. That means I'm also pretty much broke. Before I buy a game, I want to make sure it's damn worth my money. When I would pirate a game (I don't anymore - not enough time to even play legal games :-O) I would do so to play it as an "extended demo" pretty much. I pirated plenty of games which quite simply, sucked ass, and I deleted off my computer within the week, if not the same day. The few games that were good I just added to the list of games that I needed to buy. I understand that companies need to make money, and that they spend money on making the games that I enjoy. That is why I support then, WHEN they make a good game. I'm not about to buy a piece of crap game. Why? Because then the company see's that I bought it, assumes that I liked it, and decides to make more piece of crap games.

As far as pirates go who simply pirate so they don't have to pay for the game, that's bad, but I see no problem with making an informed decision before buying a product.