Piracy Killing PC Gaming?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday August 8, 2006 @02:32AM from the arrrr dept.

1up reports on comments from Kevin Cloud, co-owner of id, saying that piracy is killing the PC games business. He says that, in most markets, it's hard to sell official products because pirates can beat them to market. From the article: "'It's the primary reason retailers are moving to the console,' Cloud said, continuing on to say that ways to reduce piracy are in the forefront of every PC developer's mind, and citing World of Warcraft's subscription-based nature as an example of a possible solution to the problem."

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Re:Umm by acvh · 2006-08-08 02:43 · Score: 3, Informative

"Most people who pirate PC games also pirate console games"

I find this hard to believe. It's an order of magnitude more difficult to install a mod chip, hook up your console to a PC, flash the BIOS and copy ROMS images than it is to google for a serial number crack for a PC game.

I would venture that PC game copyright violation (I don't like "piracy") occurs 100 times more often than console game copyright violation; especially if we're only looking at current generation games.