Who said I pirated their PC games, or even game on a PC?(I do, but its an assumption) I also have a modded 360, Wii and PS3. So Ubi's move will never effect me, if they release a game I want to play, I will play it, and I wont pay for it.
Fact of the matter is I'm a single middle class male, with gobs of disposable income. I have no problems spending money on games, the collectors edition of SW:TOR and D3 I have ordered kind of prove that point. My high horse its not an excuse, I truly will not support software companies who treat their customers like garbage, and on the flip side I will buy games that I have no intention of playing just to support the genre (4x turn based, I'm looking at you)
But in that same vein of thought, if there's a game I want to play, I'm going to play it. If the company(or publisher) wants me to pay for it, they better be consumer friendly, if they're not, I will steal from them and have no feelings of guilt in doing so.
I vote with my wallet, but I'm not going to go without a good game, I just wont pay for it, if the devs wanted my money, they will pick a publisher that doesn't have a track record of being complete dicks to their customers, and installing borderline criminal software on my PC without permission.
When they make the statement "95% of our customers pirate our games anyway" they lose any and all credibility and sound like a bunch of butt-hurt tweens.
I pirate Ubi games, 100% of the time because of all the BS that the company has spouted and tried to cram down our throats over the years. And I can promise you, that the seeders never came even close to 20% of their sales, let alone 95%. So yes, when you make a sensationalist claim, people disregard your whole argument, just like I'm disregarding yours for backing them up, might there be some truth to it? Don't know, don't care. If the people at Ubi want to be taken seriously, they can act the part. Until then Im not really listening, nor am I really listening to the people who try and back them up.
If you'e trying to imply that BT as a protocol will be banned, you're dead wrong, its already used for many legitimate distributions, and im not just talking about the WoW Patchers.
Even if they somehow succeeded, we can hope the next protocol is created in a tor like manner when you never even get to find out where the data your sending and receiving is coming and going from.
I believe in Eugenics, however there isn't a single entity on earth who has successfully tried to harness it, the only agenda that you can have in mind when talking about Eugenics(properly) is the betterment of the human species. Because of every leader who has falsely tried to claim they were doing eugenics, when in fact their only agenda was the extermination of a sub-group, it has gotten a very bad name in most circles.
Fact of the matter, is Eugenics is basically selective breeding and genetic manipulation of the human species in order to breed a better human. I'm for that, only a terrorist wouldn't be.
But that's not why they're dropping PC, they may be putting on that song and dance. But the whole industry knows, that if you make quality games, the PC market is VERY profitable. Try telling Acti-Blizzard that the PC market is unprofitable and they should pull out. Off the record I bet they mercilessly make fun of Ubi for their business decisions. I know I would.
Fuck ethics. Fuck individual rights. If something is for the betterment of the species, it should get done. And before you ask, yes I'm for eugenics and selective sterilizations.
Even if vaccines give autism, its fucking better than small pox and polio. Any parent who would rather subject their child to polio instead of autism needs to be killed, publicly.
Except it doesn't. The only viruses that successfully 'get around' immunization are the ones that do it naturally(See Influenza), because that's the way they are, not as some defense mechanism.
We are seeing anti-biotic resistant bacteria because anti-biotics dont kill all the bacteria, some survive the treatment, and very occasionally then take hold elsewhere to become resistant strains.
We don't see this problem in our immunological response, because our white cells don't exactly leave bacteria and viruses half dead, or survivors for that matter. Once those antibodies attach, your done. No passing go, no collecting 200$, no passing on your genes so that the next generation can evolve to fight back. That white cell there is going to annihilate you.
When they truly become unprofitable, not the pseudo-unprofitable the industries are trying to claim right now. if they're losing money at every turn according their FUD, and have been for years, how exactly are they still around? Oh that's right, they are in fact quite profitable, and will remain so, but the CE* types raking in millions might have to take a pay cut, or worse just not exist in some companies (Indys go go good team) And that my friends is what this is really all about. Fat cats making gobs of cash for doing nothing have their racket threatened, because more and more devs, the creativity behind these awesome games, have realized they can go make a game, distribute it through steam and make a small fortune instead of a 80,000 a year salary and watching all their creativity fill the pockets of useless managers and retail level publishers.
I for one welcome the death of the retail software industry, long live the digital age.
Those numbers you posted do not include digital sales. I have yet to find a sales stats site that did not exclude digital sales. The 3.4 million number is ONLY retail sales.
That's slowly phasing out, as the generation that got shit-tastic games bought for them, is now buying games for their kids. With us being gamers ourselves, we know what to look for, this is in fact a possible major contributing factor to the decline of (shitty) game sales.
Soon all parents will be ex-gamers, or at least their friends would be saturated enough with gamers so when they ask "What xbox3k game should I get little billy?" they're going to get a very accurate answer, instead of getting "Jack Nicholson Golf on NES" as an answer.
VERY popular in South America too, I work with a host of people from Paraguay, and they put ketchup on fucking everything, including pizza. They've told me its common in almost all of South America.
As the rest of the sentence says, Im not a fan of that power in the hands of a government either, but comparatively to a private citizen, way, way more comfortable.
I agree with the other poster, as soon as you're "Too Big to Fail" your company should be seized, nationalized, broken up and sold. The ONLY institutions that should have the power to bring the world to its knees like this last crisis did, is governments, and even then im not a big fan. But I feel MUCH better with that power in the hands of my government, than with a private citizen.
Think of it from a military point of view, If my company had a private security force, that rivaled the US/Chinese military, would they let me keep it? Then why the fuck is a company allowed to wield the same economic power?
They're called fetishes, show me where I can get 40 hours of a midget beating a south American prostitute with a halibut while reciting the pledge of allegiance and ill stop paying for my porn.
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Who said I pirated their PC games, or even game on a PC?(I do, but its an assumption) I also have a modded 360, Wii and PS3. So Ubi's move will never effect me, if they release a game I want to play, I will play it, and I wont pay for it.
Fact of the matter is I'm a single middle class male, with gobs of disposable income. I have no problems spending money on games, the collectors edition of SW:TOR and D3 I have ordered kind of prove that point. My high horse its not an excuse, I truly will not support software companies who treat their customers like garbage, and on the flip side I will buy games that I have no intention of playing just to support the genre (4x turn based, I'm looking at you)
But in that same vein of thought, if there's a game I want to play, I'm going to play it. If the company(or publisher) wants me to pay for it, they better be consumer friendly, if they're not, I will steal from them and have no feelings of guilt in doing so.
I vote with my wallet, but I'm not going to go without a good game, I just wont pay for it, if the devs wanted my money, they will pick a publisher that doesn't have a track record of being complete dicks to their customers, and installing borderline criminal software on my PC without permission.
In a truly capitalistic society, there is no such thing as counterfeit goods, just goods for sale.
When they make the statement "95% of our customers pirate our games anyway" they lose any and all credibility and sound like a bunch of butt-hurt tweens.
I pirate Ubi games, 100% of the time because of all the BS that the company has spouted and tried to cram down our throats over the years. And I can promise you, that the seeders never came even close to 20% of their sales, let alone 95%. So yes, when you make a sensationalist claim, people disregard your whole argument, just like I'm disregarding yours for backing them up, might there be some truth to it? Don't know, don't care. If the people at Ubi want to be taken seriously, they can act the part. Until then Im not really listening, nor am I really listening to the people who try and back them up.
If you'e trying to imply that BT as a protocol will be banned, you're dead wrong, its already used for many legitimate distributions, and im not just talking about the WoW Patchers.
Even if they somehow succeeded, we can hope the next protocol is created in a tor like manner when you never even get to find out where the data your sending and receiving is coming and going from.
I believe in Eugenics, however there isn't a single entity on earth who has successfully tried to harness it, the only agenda that you can have in mind when talking about Eugenics(properly) is the betterment of the human species. Because of every leader who has falsely tried to claim they were doing eugenics, when in fact their only agenda was the extermination of a sub-group, it has gotten a very bad name in most circles.
Fact of the matter, is Eugenics is basically selective breeding and genetic manipulation of the human species in order to breed a better human. I'm for that, only a terrorist wouldn't be.
But that's not why they're dropping PC, they may be putting on that song and dance. But the whole industry knows, that if you make quality games, the PC market is VERY profitable. Try telling Acti-Blizzard that the PC market is unprofitable and they should pull out. Off the record I bet they mercilessly make fun of Ubi for their business decisions. I know I would.
Fuck ethics. Fuck individual rights. If something is for the betterment of the species, it should get done. And before you ask, yes I'm for eugenics and selective sterilizations.
Even if vaccines give autism, its fucking better than small pox and polio. Any parent who would rather subject their child to polio instead of autism needs to be killed, publicly.
Anyone who is against vaccination needs to be summarily executed for the betterment of the human race.
:P
That statement clear up our viewpoint?
Except it doesn't. The only viruses that successfully 'get around' immunization are the ones that do it naturally(See Influenza), because that's the way they are, not as some defense mechanism.
We are seeing anti-biotic resistant bacteria because anti-biotics dont kill all the bacteria, some survive the treatment, and very occasionally then take hold elsewhere to become resistant strains.
We don't see this problem in our immunological response, because our white cells don't exactly leave bacteria and viruses half dead, or survivors for that matter. Once those antibodies attach, your done. No passing go, no collecting 200$, no passing on your genes so that the next generation can evolve to fight back. That white cell there is going to annihilate you.
Why do you think they want to privatize everything? Its not about money.
When they truly become unprofitable, not the pseudo-unprofitable the industries are trying to claim right now. if they're losing money at every turn according their FUD, and have been for years, how exactly are they still around? Oh that's right, they are in fact quite profitable, and will remain so, but the CE* types raking in millions might have to take a pay cut, or worse just not exist in some companies (Indys go go good team) And that my friends is what this is really all about. Fat cats making gobs of cash for doing nothing have their racket threatened, because more and more devs, the creativity behind these awesome games, have realized they can go make a game, distribute it through steam and make a small fortune instead of a 80,000 a year salary and watching all their creativity fill the pockets of useless managers and retail level publishers.
I for one welcome the death of the retail software industry, long live the digital age.
Those numbers you posted do not include digital sales. I have yet to find a sales stats site that did not exclude digital sales. The 3.4 million number is ONLY retail sales.
That's slowly phasing out, as the generation that got shit-tastic games bought for them, is now buying games for their kids. With us being gamers ourselves, we know what to look for, this is in fact a possible major contributing factor to the decline of (shitty) game sales.
Soon all parents will be ex-gamers, or at least their friends would be saturated enough with gamers so when they ask "What xbox3k game should I get little billy?" they're going to get a very accurate answer, instead of getting "Jack Nicholson Golf on NES" as an answer.
umad?
Do some research, Steve Jobs has(had?) actually applyed for a patent on that very idea.
Don't put food or bathrooms in the room, and literally don't let them out until they agree and you'll be surprised how fast concessions happen.
Mob justice is democracy.
Chicken for Christmas isn't abnormal. Those crazy fucks who eat turkey, that's another thing.
I'm intrigued, what brands would you recommend as a 'standard' euro-ketchup?
VERY popular in South America too, I work with a host of people from Paraguay, and they put ketchup on fucking everything, including pizza. They've told me its common in almost all of South America.
Doesn't matter if its legal, you agree to the ToS to use the service, break the ToS, no service for you!
As the rest of the sentence says, Im not a fan of that power in the hands of a government either, but comparatively to a private citizen, way, way more comfortable.
I agree with the other poster, as soon as you're "Too Big to Fail" your company should be seized, nationalized, broken up and sold. The ONLY institutions that should have the power to bring the world to its knees like this last crisis did, is governments, and even then im not a big fan. But I feel MUCH better with that power in the hands of my government, than with a private citizen.
Think of it from a military point of view, If my company had a private security force, that rivaled the US/Chinese military, would they let me keep it? Then why the fuck is a company allowed to wield the same economic power?
They're called fetishes, show me where I can get 40 hours of a midget beating a south American prostitute with a halibut while reciting the pledge of allegiance and ill stop paying for my porn.
Ill help you end the world.