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Ubisoft Working On a New Anti-Piracy Tool
Ubisoft recently revealed that their game sales have seen a 50% drop over the past quarter, blaming the overall market slowdown and piracy (particularly on the DS) for the low numbers. They also announced that four of their games, including Splinter Cell: Conviction and Red Steel 2, would be delayed until 2010. The company's CEO, Yves Guillemot, now says they are working on a new anti-piracy tool that should be ready by the end of 2009. He didn't offer any details about how it would be implemented.
For less than the price of a car (and they're only about $10,000) I can buy a crowbar and learn to hotwire which lets you steal any car you could ever want and then some *and* lets you live games like GTA in real life. No weekly repayments or repossessions, it's all just there.
Why would I want to participate in the for-pay car economy when the thief experience is far superior?
yup. like the iphone dropped games to $0.99 and the pirates all gave up and opened their wallets honestly. hence the zero rate of piracy on iphone games.
wait...
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As I said, I've bought many games from Ubisoft (often at launch price) and I've pirated a grand total of one (during the 4 years between when it left store shelves and when it went on Steam and it's legal purchase was prohibitively difficult).
Or said another way, I'm bought groceries many times and only stolen groceries once in the last four years. That doesn't make me a thief. Anything sound odd with my rephrase?
Even if I was actually rationalizing shoplifting or embezzlement (financial crimes with actual victims), comparing me to a rapist or murderer would still be pretty crazy hyperbole.
Yes, it absolutely is hyperbole. But hyperbole can also show how rediculas a particular position is. By implying stealing something is doing a favor is the exactly same broken rational as all of the rediculas examples I provided. Stealing is no more doing a favor than is raping someone. That's hardly the same thing as comparing you to a rapist, etc...
I would still feel better about myself than if I ever felt the urge to be calling people scum
Like I said, people will rationalize anything to make themselves feel better. If you don't want to called thief, don't steal. Irrationally "rationalizing" others calling thieves scum doesn't change the facts. Stealing is wrong.