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Game piracy either „Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of freebie!“

Before you, dear reader, get acquainted with the text below, you need to know that the author of this epic is an avid PC-gamer. And even if the article covers game piracy as a whole, you, the reader, should not be mistaken, because first of all, playing piracy on PC, and also in a separate country – Russia, is considered here.

Preface ..

The warm August Day of 1998 in Russia officially recognized default, which significantly gnawed most of the country’s population. Many lost everything (although after the collapse of the USSR it was difficult to say that we at least acquired something, except for the unfulfilled hopes). And let the piracy already existed, but the real scales were just beginning to emerge. Everyone survived as they could. It was the 90s, baby.

It is important to note that piracy in Russia used to be necessary and even important. It gave us (for money) that we in Russia could not find officially. Whether it is movie, software or video games. It was of high quality. Until now, many with warmth in their hearts recall the Fargusovsky translation, because it was a quality that is not always, but periodically not reaching today’s official localizers.

It was piracy that formed the situation in our market, behind which we are observing now. This applies primarily to games and DVD films, which are several times lower than in Western Europe and the USA.

Now piracy has acquired a completely different meaning. Kingmakercasino.co.uk If earlier we needed it, now it is just a chase pursuit, where, respectively, the quality of the products has significantly decreased. Piracy ceased to be the ray of light with which it was. Today’s piracy is a dead end for video games industry.

PC-gaming died or „Free to Play. Pay to Win.“?

Evil tongues say that PC-gaming is dead. They just forget to mention that he has been dying for more than five years and still die Can’t. Despite the output Elusians for PC (thank God that they still have), who are with Gulkin’s nose, it must be said that PC-gaming continues to be under threat. Under the real threat caused by piracy. Big bosses see medicine in the economic model Free-to-Play, as usual, forgetting to ask about this honest PC-gamers.

Free-to-Play… how much meaning is in this word. Is such an economic model a medicine against game piracy? It can be against him, but in the same way it will be a poison on the veins of PC gaming.

Free-to-Play deprives us of a balanced game process, deprives us of a methodical passage and a single company as a whole. Imposes a donat that manifests itself in one form or another. If you want to feel like God and punish everyone to the right and left? Buy a sword of power that is no less than Company of Heroes 2 V Steam (899 rubles) and feel the blessing of publishers and developers on yourself. But remember that there is someone who will bend you because he invested more than you yourself. Thus, we find ourselves in a vicious circle. On Free-to-Play, we will spend more than on Ordinary (not quite successful formulation, but absolutely accurate) game.

Of course, there is an exception to the rules, but the exception only confirms the rule. Speech, of course, in First of all Touch Dota 2 from the company Valve. Donat in this game does not affect the gameplay in any way, you do not need to buy heroes (League of Legends), you pay exclusively for the appearance of the character. But the author of this article would not be himself if he had not tried to look at the situation from the other side. In my opinion, Dota 2 is nothing more than a tool for maintaining and popularizing Steam Among the game community. Given the popularity League of Legends, where the number of regular online players reaches about 3 million. A person will not be superfluous to assume that Valve expects such numbers from his own project, because now at the stage of the beta test, the number of online players in Dota 2 reaches 200 thousand. Human. The more popular Dota 2, the more people will be in Steam.

May our wolves be full, and the sheep are intact.

There is a lie, big lie and statistics. Let’s talk about the latter. According to data Torrentfreak The most downloaded game for 2011 was Crysis 2 (3.920,000 downloads). Imagine if all the downloading players would buy this game. Impressive, is it not true? Of course, such a piracy on PC makes this platform not attractive to developers and publishers, and this is understandable. Based on unattractiveness, PC receives clumsy, poorly optimized ports with consoles, neglect of publishers and developers. After all, in their opinion, the majority still download the game illegally. Then why spend strength on it? As if we are fed with stubs so that we do not at all Deaned.

And now what to do PC-Gamers? No need to come up with a bicycle to give an answer to this question, it is obvious – buy licensed games. Afraid of buying a cat in a bag? Look at the trailers, read the reviews, study the product without resorting to prohibited techniques. There is no money? Add the game to the „list of the desired“ and purchase when financial resources appear. Wait, the game will not run away from you. No need to oversaturate yourself with a freebie, in life it will not teach you anything good. As they say, you like to ride, love and sledges to carry.

If a person who previously preferred to download games is illegally, now he will pay for the game, then something has changed and, perhaps, others will follow. Thus, raking down the susks, PC can be made an attractive gaming platform. You say that this one person is just a drop in the sea, but that there is a sea, if not many drops?