Ayepecks Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 http://kotaku.com/5215528/demigod-18000-cu...-100000-pirates Ugh. And people wonder why PC users get the shaft nowadays. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jamesyfx Subscriber² Posted April 17, 2009 Subscriber² Share Posted April 17, 2009 People are just cheap! PC games are the cheapest games out of the bunch as well! They already get a discount. :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neoauld Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 (edited) this is a game i actually felt was worth buying but you know what, i regret it(like all non blizzard games i buy) the pirates can play online..that was the only reason left to really BUY a game however, the game actually IS worth the money if you looked at its overall quality Edited April 17, 2009 by Neoauld Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antaris Veteran Posted April 17, 2009 Veteran Share Posted April 17, 2009 lol, did the title get embezzled a bit more? :p -20,000. Still though, thats a lot of pirates! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sethos Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 Lawl :rofl: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudy Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 Yea it's 120,000 people played online but they only sold 18,000 games (so about 102,000 pirates) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kudos Veteran Posted April 17, 2009 Veteran Share Posted April 17, 2009 lol, did the title get embezzled a bit more? :p -20,000.Still though, thats a lot of pirates! Embellished. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antaris Veteran Posted April 17, 2009 Veteran Share Posted April 17, 2009 Embellished. Kudos to you -_-' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Lyle Global Moderator Posted April 17, 2009 Global Moderator Share Posted April 17, 2009 ouch.. 1 in every 5 was a paying customer... That's really bad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ph0bia Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 the pirates cant play online, well they can but they cant patch it to the version paying users use because the game needs to be registered with impulse and a cd key before it will update so if they want to play online with fixes and updates they are going to have to buy it. granted its probably the most crappy PC game release this year, the dev's are going above and beyond to get patches rolled out to fix the problems, Frogboy (the CEO) of Stardock has been working his ass of helping people in the chat channel and working out the bugs with the connection issue's so in another few days i would say that most of the problems will be fixed. i for one really like the game and it has tons of potentiol once the connection problems are ironed out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shakey Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 Horrible game. gameplay was unfun and tedious. just not my style i guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Hammond Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 What annoys me about this is how companies treat pirates as a lost sale, just because 102,000 people are trying to play it online doesnt mean 102,000 would have bought the game if it wasnt available to pirate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mystic MVC Posted April 17, 2009 MVC Share Posted April 17, 2009 Horrible game. gameplay was unfun and tedious. just not my style i guess. Tedious describes it well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carmatic Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 What annoys me about this is how companies treat pirates as a lost sale, just because 102,000 people are trying to play it online doesnt mean 102,000 would have bought the game if it wasnt available to pirate. it would matter abit more if the pirates are taking up resources that would have otherwise gone to a paying customer, such as server capacity..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+longgonebn Subscriber² Posted April 17, 2009 Subscriber² Share Posted April 17, 2009 I actually bought this game, but have not played it since the beta yet lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-KJ Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 What annoys me about this is how companies treat pirates as a lost sale, just because 102,000 people are trying to play it online doesnt mean 102,000 would have bought the game if it wasnt available to pirate. They shouldn't have the priviledge to play a game someone else paid for. And these are the type of pirates that will shield themselves behind "legitimate" concerns like DRM as their reason for pirating. What a bunch of hypocrites! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MightyJordan Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 People are just cheap! PC games are the cheapest games out of the bunch as well! They already get a discount. :p They get a discount because all the hardware you need to run the newest games cost you an arm and a leg; even more than a PS3! :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob_c_b Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 What annoys me about this is how companies treat pirates as a lost sale, just because 102,000 people are trying to play it online doesnt mean 102,000 would have bought the game if it wasnt available to pirate. What annoys me is people who try and rationalize this kind of thing, 102,000 people stole something, intent is irrelevant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tikimotel Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 I wonder how many of these 100000 pirates copies originate from a country where demigod wasn't in the stores yet... like in europe... People want the game, have the internet news and know it's available, but can't buy it in their country yet because the "booklet" still needs translating.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Treemonkeys Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 What annoys me is people who try and rationalize this kind of thing, 102,000 people stole something, intent is irrelevant. and what exactly did they steal? It's not like 102,000 copies got pulled off the shelves. I can't remember the last time I played a game that let illegal copies online, these guys are idiots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Hammond Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 What annoys me is people who try and rationalize this kind of thing, 102,000 people stole something, intent is irrelevant. What annoys me is people trying to equate copyright infringement to stealing, if you pirate something you dont walk into a game shop and take it off the shelves, you just download the bits. Thats not stealing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SMELTN Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 wow.. I just seen info about this game.. That's insane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perochan Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 looks like a fun game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ph0bia Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 (edited) the 18k and the 100k were just connections not copys..so granted there were 100k pirated versions trying to connect and 18k legit users at that time they checked..not just 18k copys sold. the only reason they got online was because it was released early by GS and was torrented by saturday morning before the servers were up and ready so no cd key/serial checkers were in place. Edited April 17, 2009 by ph0bia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thirtythree Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 What annoys me is people trying to equate copyright infringement to stealing, if you pirate something you dont walk into a game shop and take it off the shelves, you just download the bits. Thats not stealing. You pay for the license to install and use the game...not the media used to install it. Yes, you are stealing. :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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