"In other news, Will Wright's latest video game entitled Spore generates almost no funds with little sales on release day, yet 5 million are playing it due to the ability to pirate the game"
All kidding aside, while I know I will be purchasing this game when it is released (if all other reviews and whatnot are at least decent), I hope that the rest of the world decides to do this. In my opinion, this is the reason why we dont see very many revolutionary game ideas and IP. When you create video games based off movie and tv show IP, it is easier to generate sales -- you got the group that needs to collect every thing from a repetitive IP, and you got the group of kids and the younger generation that know how to ask for the game by name -- "Mommy, I want that (place your own tv show/movie here) game". I guess I just hope that the rising piracy problem in the world does not kill off other possible great games like this.
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"In other news, Will Wright's latest video game entitled Spore generates almost no funds with little sales on release day, yet 5 million are playing it due to the ability to pirate the game"
All kidding aside, while I know I will be purchasing this game when it is released (if all other reviews and whatnot are at least decent), I hope that the rest of the world decides to do this. In my opinion, this is the reason why we dont see very many revolutionary game ideas and IP. When you create video games based off movie and tv show IP, it is easier to generate sales -- you got the group that needs to collect every thing from a repetitive IP, and you got the group of kids and the younger generation that know how to ask for the game by name -- "Mommy, I want that (place your own tv show/movie here) game". I guess I just hope that the rising piracy problem in the world does not kill off other possible great games like this.
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