In a blog article for Edge Online, game writer Tom Jubert offers his take on the ‘crisis’ of PC piracy. He’s not all that convinced by Crytek’s Cevat Yerli and his statistics.
He explains that some of these figures and hysteria don’t give a ”true impact of piracy on the PC”, mainly because some markets just aren’t that big to start with.
”Revenue may well be suffering at the hands of piracy, but sales in these regions have always done so, and console titles are likely to see similarly weak sales for similar reasons,” explains Jubert.
”In short, high piracy in these areas does not form a large part of the recently prophesised collapse of PC gaming.”
Many ‘pirates’ claim they scour the web for this ill-gotten bounty because the demos are lacking in size or existence, and that marketing departments are such barefaced liars.
”A free game represents considerably better value than a legit one, and only a fraction of the illegal audience is likely to have bought the game at face value - still more may have been using the cracked copies in a ‘try before you buy’ fashion,” he continued.
Click here to read Tom Jubert’s Edge Online blog.
