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if what they say is true then it means that over a billion people play each of their PC games.
Pretty bold statement given that most of their games suck to a point that they are never well seeded and have the lowest number of leechers compared to any other game company.
In fact many groups that crack games will put their games really low on the list unless it is an assassins creed game, at which point it is more like in the middle of the list, and I am cure 95% of of assassins creed copies are not pirate if it was, it would mean nearly half of the planet has pirated that game.
Match their claimed piracy rate with their reported game sales and you will see insane numbers like 3-5 billion people pirating their games when they release a major/ hyped title. For some reason it does not seem very realistic that so many people would pirate their games.
PS it is easier to pirate games for the xbox 360 than it is for the PC, xbox 360 games have an extra track of data that contains the boot info for the games, because it is not in a normal location that DVD drives expect, simply copying and burning them will not work, but people have created tools now which forces a standard DVD burner to burn the extra track.
the difference between a cracked PC game and a cracked console game, is that for PC each game requires it's own special crck while for the xbox 360, it is 1 crack to rule them all and there is no special check that they can do to verify if it is an original game and they cant add additional DRM (at least not to older games) because then that will break compatibility with most of their games.
Game makers don't believe the piracy crap they they say, the true reason why they like consoles is because there are more gullible people using consoles. It is easier to milk money out of them and thus more profitable.
With PC gaming, the users are more likely to understand how the technology works and also know when to call BS on services like xbox live and extra micro transactions. And if not that, they are at least more likely to understand the value of money better than some kid who bugs their parents for $5 or $10 so that he could buy a new shirt for his game character or some other crap.
Pretty bold statement given that most of their games suck to a point that they are never well seeded and have the lowest number of leechers compared to any other game company.
In fact many groups that crack games will put their games really low on the list unless it is an assassins creed game, at which point it is more like in the middle of the list, and I am cure 95% of of assassins creed copies are not pirate if it was, it would mean nearly half of the planet has pirated that game.
Match their claimed piracy rate with their reported game sales and you will see insane numbers like 3-5 billion people pirating their games when they release a major/ hyped title. For some reason it does not seem very realistic that so many people would pirate their games.
PS it is easier to pirate games for the xbox 360 than it is for the PC, xbox 360 games have an extra track of data that contains the boot info for the games, because it is not in a normal location that DVD drives expect, simply copying and burning them will not work, but people have created tools now which forces a standard DVD burner to burn the extra track.
the difference between a cracked PC game and a cracked console game, is that for PC each game requires it's own special crck while for the xbox 360, it is 1 crack to rule them all and there is no special check that they can do to verify if it is an original game and they cant add additional DRM (at least not to older games) because then that will break compatibility with most of their games.
Game makers don't believe the piracy crap they they say, the true reason why they like consoles is because there are more gullible people using consoles. It is easier to milk money out of them and thus more profitable.
With PC gaming, the users are more likely to understand how the technology works and also know when to call BS on services like xbox live and extra micro transactions. And if not that, they are at least more likely to understand the value of money better than some kid who bugs their parents for $5 or $10 so that he could buy a new shirt for his game character or some other crap.
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