What are the developers' views on piracy of their game?

[EzekielJK]

Just a question. Do they keep close watch of the torrents in hopes to catch people or do they simply not care like the developers of Postal and straight up recommend piracy?

[BlackEagle]

I don't think anyone can in good conscience "recommend" piracy. It is of course, stealing.

Stealing from small studios is pretty low. They don't have resources to do anything about it and it's simply not worth the money to fight it. Small studios live by the honesty of people who value their games enough to pay for them, many of which are often under-priced for the value they provide.

[EzekielJK]

Originally posted by BlackEagle:

I don't think anyone can in good conscience "recommend" piracy. It is of course, stealing.

Stealing from small studios is pretty low. They don't have resources to do anything about it and it's simply not worth the money to fight it. Small studios live by the honesty of people who value their games enough to pay for them, many of which are often under-priced for the value they provide.

Wow, thank you for replying!

[ployer]

Originally posted by BlackEagle:

I don't think anyone can in good conscience "recommend" piracy. It is of course, stealing.

Stealing from small studios is pretty low. They don't have resources to do anything about it and it's simply not worth the money to fight it. Small studios live by the honesty of people who value their games enough to pay for them, many of which are often under-priced for the value they provide.

"They don't have resources to do anything about it" they shouldn't do anything about it. Putting drm is useless since it will be cracked in a day while annoying the person who paid for the game. Pirates will pirate the game so how about the small developers focus on people who pay for the game. Also piracy can be a good advertiser. I was pirating games like no tommorow like 2years ago and most of my library are those same games i pirated.

[EzekielJK]

Originally posted by ployer:

Originally posted by BlackEagle:

I don't think anyone can in good conscience "recommend" piracy. It is of course, stealing.

Stealing from small studios is pretty low. They don't have resources to do anything about it and it's simply not worth the money to fight it. Small studios live by the honesty of people who value their games enough to pay for them, many of which are often under-priced for the value they provide.

"They don't have resources to do anything about it" they shouldn't do anything about it. Putting drm is useless since it will be cracked in a day while annoying the person who paid for the game. Pirates will pirate the game so how about the small developers focus on people who pay for the game. Also piracy can be a good advertiser. I was pirating games like no tommorow like 2years ago and most of my library are those same games i pirated.

This, almost ver batum, is my reasoning for asking. I stand firm behind the "pirate before you buy it" mentality (unless there's a good demo of course). Frankly, with the advent of Steam, piracy isn't as good these days. For example, in the film industry, you're basiacally stuck buying things from a million different retailers (VUDU, Fandango, Apple TV, etc.). I refuse to buy them because it's just a better experience to pirate them and drop them on my 1 TB HDD. With Steam, they somehow made an actually a better experience buying the game than it is to download from Skidrow. I used to pirate games exclusively but now, I'm actually seeking out a ton of my old games and buying them one by one. The last game I'm missing before I can sign off Steam for good is Botanicula.

[ployer]

" With Steam, they somehow made an actually a better experience buying the game than it is to download from ______" Fully agree with that