Is $ony even trying anymore?

[Shadowblind]

Oh sure, Sony's trying....to make people buy a piece of sh*t.

Name 1 good game other then Resistance for the PS3 that isn't also on the 360.

[mexicansnake]

Oh sure, Sony's trying....to make people buy a piece of sh*t.

Name 1 good game other then Resistance for the PS3 that isn't also on the 360.

My little brother has a ps3 and he has resistance(I like it) but the other games are few and bad...

[yaustar]

What JKKDARK is trying to say is that Mexico is not consider a major territory when it comes down to localisation of games which force you to buy your games elsewhere, sometimes at a higher price.

[mexicansnake]

What JKKDARK is trying to say is that Mexico is not consider a major territory when it comes down to localisation of games which force you to buy your games elsewhere, sometimes at a higher price.

JKKDARK was mixing nonsence ideas. This explanation is better.

[punkonjunk]

So try the demo like I said in the text you quoted. A review will also give you the gist of what to expect in the game regardless of the score. Between the two, you should be able to get a solid enough judgment if the game is right for you.


By doing that, you have just taken money out of my pocket (in a very round about way) as a games developer. Theft is theft, its like stealing a car when you can't afford it.

OK dude, I understand the anti-piracy campaign completely, but I can't support it.

If all cars costed 1,000,000 dollars, but they were also a necessity, I would be forced to try and steal one. Buying one is just too far outside of my budget in all practicality now when I could get one for like 1,000 dollars. They are cheap and come with many nice things.

Now I have an idea for game design. Torrenting large files takes a long time. And games wouldn't be that hard to sell cheaper with a bit of reworking how everything works, I'm sure.
So lets consider this.
I can't afford a PSP, so I got one used. Cheap and busted, and put custom firmware on it after fixing it. If they were 129 dollars new, maybe I could get one. but 180 used? **** that.
Now, the games are pretty small, but about the max of how long I'd like to wait on my connection, albeit crappy.
If the games were 40 gigs each, I would not be pirating PSP games, under any circumstance. I'd just rather buy one. I know that's impractical to say because you can't just pack in blank data to increase the size - Someone will make a trimmer of some sort.
They need to truly be big. So include more extras, and pay attention to graphics. I know this is totally impractical for a handheld, which brings me back to the price point.

Big cheap games - I would buy those. A 20 dollar PSP game? When it takes a month to download? in a heartbeat.

I bet PS3 piracy will be rediculously slow-going. Homebrew yes, I support that. That's sweet. Piracy I don't support per se, but honestly who can blame us.
It's like stealing an apple in the market. I know this isn't a necessity, but it's a way of life. I'm used to always having two handhelds on me. It used to be a gameboy and stupid handheld crap. Now it's PSP and DS.

I'm very tired so I'd understand if I made some mistakes, let me know if I'm totally unclear in what i'm saying.



@mexicansnake - You are pretty much the coolest mexican ever. I would not have been able to hold myself back at all if someone said something as ignorant as "Game companies don't care about mexico"

Man, that's ridiculous.

[JKKDARK]

I would not have been able to hold myself back at all if someone said something as ignorant as "Game companies don't care about mexico"

Man, that's ridiculous.

Give me a perfect reason why big games (Konami, EA, Sega, Activison, etc) are not being manufactured on Mexico.

[yaustar]

It's like stealing an apple in the market. I know this isn't a necessity, but it's a way of life.

You don't have to play games to survive, but you do have to eat. THAT's the difference.

[punkonjunk]

I knew people would get hooked up on trivialties. You don't even have to steal the apple to survive, there are much less pleasant things to eat.

But yet one will steal something they desire strongly enough if it is too far out of the logical limit for them, economically.

Can you please not nitpick my philosophy on this, and rather address the concept I created for stopping new-age piracy, or stemming alot of it?

[yaustar]

So you are saying that piracy is convenient due to sizes? Games are 'expensive' because it costs money for hiring developers for the game as well as distribution, marketing and advertising. By adding more content, you need more developers and/or more time to create it therefore driving the price up even more.

Edit: Theft is theft. It is illegal, end of story. If you can't afford it, then you shouldn't have it. Stealing out of desire is not forgivable, stealing out of necessity is.

Edit2: Look at research on how much a games costs and where the money goes. By self distribution or online distribution, you can cut a lot of money from the price of the game to something more reasonable. However, self distribution is costly in itself and the market/audience isn't yet right for online distribution to get the sales. Even when games are cheap, they will STILL be pirated just because they can still get it for free.

Take a look at how Introversion deals with piracy:
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=19283

[punkonjunk]

Did I ever say it wasn't theft? Did I argue with that?
Please climb down from your high horse and read what I'm saying. I'm explaining how I Justify it, and how that justification could be defeated by inconvenience.

For the love of god, stop arguing protection and the fact that piracy is wrong. I agree, and I don't care. That wasn't even my point.

I know they would still be pirated by some if they were cheap, but not by me, and not by alot of pirates I know. If it was only 20 bucks to get a game, and it took a week to download, I would buy the bastard.

I can say that doing this would probobly remove at least 50% of piracy in the USA, maybe more.

But you know, argue that stopping it doesn't matter because piracy is wrong, and we should all just stop on morals.
Pfffft.