ThisGenGaming Says:"While the study analysed old publications and polled users for new info in 2014, the results were not enough to indicate if piracy has a negative effect on the sales of videogames.
This doesn’t mean there isn’t any negative effect at all (as there are without a doubt certain game companies that are more affected than others) but that the research done here failed to substantiate any meaningful data that could be used during the creation of future EU legislation"
Nintendo made a significant move by issuing a DMCA notice to take down more than 8,500 clones of the popular Switch emulator, Yuzu.
The more they try to stop it, the more publicity it gets. The fact is that Yuzu will forever live on torrent and other sites. Nintendo is fighting an uphill battle.
There is nothing stopping these people from working on Yuzu clones and sharing them on torrent sites. Nintendo or anyone else cannot do shit about torrents or usenet.
lol Nintendo keep fighting this but it never ends. Why do they feel the need to persist? I guess they are in too deep now they have to
A California federal court has ordered the operator of the now-defunct pirate site RomUniverse to destroy all copyright-infringing games within two weeks. The court initially denied the request for a permanent injunction but changed its position after Nintendo warned about a potential comeback of the site.
I would imagine because he's busy with the next WarioWare and any game that's longer than 5 seconds goes against his principles.
Are you talking about the dude that uses the N word and got his girlfriend banged by his brother?
True, you can always find them no matter what. Nintendo needs to give up, no one wants to keep rebuying there games. Also there are systems that can play the hard copy if you still got them. Lucky I still got all systems and those retrocons.
Yup, Nintendo will never be ahead and let's not forget torrent sites that have been hosting their roms for years LOL
This does not do anything LOL. There are Nintendo roms on all torrent sites for so many years, plus look at this:
https://archive.org/details... This is archive.org which has so many rom sets of so many consoles but no one bothers them. 😁🤣 What's funny is Nintendo or anyone else will never win, because again, torrent sites and lets not forget Newsgroups. I have thousands of roms for almost every console so easy to get.
and you are also able to click links on torrent sites, we got the message now. people do this stuff for 15+ years now, its nothing special and we all have google to find these sites if we want.
As we know Piracy in the entertainment and gaming industry can sometimes be out of control, and when it comes to small companies or indie dev teams it truly can be devastating. As it seems to be the case for indie developers The Brotherhood who has just launched Beautiful Desolation is having issues with piracy at the moment and has made a plea to those who are downloading it illegally to think about making a purchase instead.
The ppl who pirate indie games are usually ppl who really can't afford games be it because age, country or financial situation. You aren't losing much because of them.
That's still no reason to pirate games and let the hard-working small team go without the means to meet the fruit of their labor. If you pirate games, you're as low as they get.
"If you pirate games, you're as low as they get".
Yeah, forget those rapists and murderers man, copyright infringement is just THE worst ;)
Besides, did you even read what you wrote? You basically said that people not having the money to buy a game isn't an excuse for them to not pay the developers and buy the game. What?
so do you think watching a streamer play a game and you yourself not purchasing it afterwards is not the same thing? Streamed games have a higher loss of sales due to people who were curious about a purchase get their fill watching it played.
I pirated when l was a kid, now l don't. last time l checked there are still kids around so pirating is going to happen.
Yeah, it's like you say. Also, the devs are making the age-old mistake of assuming downloads = missed sales.
When pirating a game is as easy as going to a site and clicking a link for all the latest releases, people end up pirating just for the sake of it.
Most games aren't played and those that are often end up being played for a short while and then not touched again until the person needs to uninstall to clear disk space.
I mean, how many people have games they've actually bought just sitting there, unplayed or hardly touched, on their Steam account? If people are like that with games they've purchased then...
I'm sure there are missed sales, just not anything like the amount of times a game gets downloaded.
I feel bad for them since the game isn't even that expensive and It's like 8 bucks on steam right now.
If you pirate a game and really enjoy it, and feel like you should have paid for it, buy a copy for a friend or family member so they can experience it too.
In other news, the same group was unable to find terminal cancer had any negative impact on the mortality rate of those affected.
I can only imagine the people doing this study were staking out their local GameStop looking for anyone with an eye patch and a hook for a hand walking into the store.
Piracy is not bad as long as they buy it afterwards.
Most pirates would have never bought the game. So how would not getting money you weren't going to receive hurt your numbers? I'm curious
I guess this is a country by country scenario.
I'm from Mexico and during the PS2 era it was just impossible to even buy original games. Pirate ones were easily accessible from day one for around $2.
Or you could wait for the original and pay more than $80.
Distribution seems to be a lot better these days and access to the PSN also helps a lot.