When online piracy is mentioned, most of us will think that only the music and movie industry are affected by it but actually there are more and one of it includes the game industry. Although gaming is a popular hobby now especially for teenagers all around the world but somehow, games studios are closing down. How can this happen you ask? The only reason is because of piracy.
While searching for information on this issue, I've found an article which is very well researched to show the impact of piracy on the game industry.
"If there's a single topic that's guaranteed to cause heated debate among PC gamers today, it's piracy and the impact it's having on the PC gaming industry. Almost every gamer you speak to has a strong opinion on this topic, ranging from full support for piracy to total condemnation of it..."more
[Online], Retrieved on 15th Feb, 2009
URL: http://www.tweakguides.com/Piracy_1.html
The article consist of everything you need to know about the relation between online piracy and game industry. Not only this article, there are other people who are having problem with this issue too and sound out their dissatisfaction on it.
"Spore was without doubt the most anticipated game of the year. The game itself has blown away the people who have played it, but the DRM encouraged thousands to get their copy illegally. Already Spore has been downloaded more than 500,000 times on BitTorrent, and this number is increasing rapidly." <more>
[Online], Retrieved on 15th Feb, 2009
URL: http://torrentfreak.com/spore-most-pirated-game-ever-thanks-to-drm-080913/
The second article is about the most anticipated game, Spore. Someone leaked it on Torrent resulting the game to be downloaded and played by more than 500,000 people around the world. Imagine how much the company that produced the game had lost because of this. Usually as a user, we will not care about all this but imagine some day in future, you've put in a lot of effort and hard work to come with a game which is supposed to be the hit of the year and few months before the game was launched, your game is already available for download online and free of charge. All your hard work and effort is paid with nothing.
I am a gamer myself and I know developing a game is not an easy task, what more a good game. I do not download the games from internet illegally like most people do. I hope that other gamers out there will take my heed too. Stop downloading it illegally online or else one day, they might just stop producing quality games for us.
While searching for information on this issue, I've found an article which is very well researched to show the impact of piracy on the game industry.
"If there's a single topic that's guaranteed to cause heated debate among PC gamers today, it's piracy and the impact it's having on the PC gaming industry. Almost every gamer you speak to has a strong opinion on this topic, ranging from full support for piracy to total condemnation of it..."more
[Online], Retrieved on 15th Feb, 2009
URL: http://www.tweakguides.com/Piracy_1.html
The article consist of everything you need to know about the relation between online piracy and game industry. Not only this article, there are other people who are having problem with this issue too and sound out their dissatisfaction on it.
"Spore was without doubt the most anticipated game of the year. The game itself has blown away the people who have played it, but the DRM encouraged thousands to get their copy illegally. Already Spore has been downloaded more than 500,000 times on BitTorrent, and this number is increasing rapidly." <more>
[Online], Retrieved on 15th Feb, 2009
URL: http://torrentfreak.com/spore-most-pirated-game-ever-thanks-to-drm-080913/
The second article is about the most anticipated game, Spore. Someone leaked it on Torrent resulting the game to be downloaded and played by more than 500,000 people around the world. Imagine how much the company that produced the game had lost because of this. Usually as a user, we will not care about all this but imagine some day in future, you've put in a lot of effort and hard work to come with a game which is supposed to be the hit of the year and few months before the game was launched, your game is already available for download online and free of charge. All your hard work and effort is paid with nothing.
I am a gamer myself and I know developing a game is not an easy task, what more a good game. I do not download the games from internet illegally like most people do. I hope that other gamers out there will take my heed too. Stop downloading it illegally online or else one day, they might just stop producing quality games for us.
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Me also the one who like to play game too. I always saw the same game appear at different game website. Can they do like this? Is this consider against online piracy also?
ReplyDeletehi..it all depends on whether the game is copyrighted or not. If it is not copyrighted, then other people can use it too. For example if you've created a flash game and you send it to your friends to play and they send it to their friends too. You cannot say that they are violating your copyrights because it is not copyrighted. Hope this answers your question =x
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