[INTERESTING ARTICLE; See Page 8] Discussion: Thoughts on Piracy

[the dark side]

no Statyx, i'm just looking at the way the industry has gone and its sales fiqures, i have a background of business education, it was a mandatory subject at the school i went to. and the sorry state of the mainstream industry is looking very similar to 1983, high piracy levels, an industry obsessed with making cheap clones of best selling games and calling them AAA, overpricing incomplete products that need up to 200 dollars worth of "add on" content to make them complete (like googolplex pointed out, except, its not a new thing with the modern "dlc" abilities, it was happening in that cartridge era with Red "add on" cartridges that cost about half the price of a total new game, that you inserted into the machine, then inserted the old cartridge into the top of, and unlocked about 10 new, very buggy, rushed out, levels) sales fiqures that are plummeting through the floor boards with each new game, ever more drastic measures to keep games selling (EG the rumours that the next gen consoles wont even PLAY second hand games, i doubt they are true as, in the UK at least, that is ILLEGAL, but it does show how desperate the industry is) marketing boards acting with blind stupidity, keeping making AAA clones, despite the flagging sales fiqures showing the genre(s) oversaturation and the people have had enough of them. big corparates on the verge of collapse, studios shutting at a rate of nealry one a week, games getting more and more rushed to market for the "big selling seasons". exactly the same business models and chains of events that lead to the 1983 games crash. its not a conspiracy, its simple comparison of cold hard business numerical data to business history.