Piracy discourages future PixelJunk PSP port plans

oh god, no......not the pirates....

I feel bad for the game developer, but at the end of the day its Sony's fault for not doing a better job of making a platform that people feel good about investing in. In the UK, PSP games are over $40, thats no good. Especially when you can buy an iPod Touch for less money and get tons of cheap games.

Times have changed, PSP game and console prices should too

Everyone I know who owns one either doesn't play games with it or pirates it. Sometimes I wonder why people still continue to develop games for the PSP.

This explains why I can't find people to play online with. =( Everyone must of pirated the game, and they can't play it online.

I think they just wanted too much money for it. $20 for a flash tower defense game (or what looks like one).

It might be a great game, but it's competing with a lot of other great PS games that were originally $30-40 and are now $20. (God of War, for instance, the Syphon Filter games).

And that's not even counting console games. I'm loathe to spend $20 on a downloadable title when I can get an older 360 disc game for $20.

$15 would have been a fairer price...

I bought it. with money. I hate hate hate pirates. they are common thief, no better than a shoplifter at a local wal-mart. pathetic.

You don't pay, you don't deserve to play. What makes you think you're so damn special that you're entitled to a free game?

Guess what?

YOU ARE NOT ENTITLED TO ANYTHING. NOONE OWES YOU ANYTHING. YOU ARE NOT SPECIAL (despite what your mommy tells you).

You want something so badly? Then buy it. Don't want to pay for it? Then you don't get to have it. Simple as that. You don't have a RIGHT to play video games.


It just bugs me how people steal and pirate, and yet see nothing wrong with it. No morals.

They still all our internets!

yeah.... i wasn't really paying attention when I wrote that. It's times like this I wish there was an edit button on Joystiq

We need more pirates to combat global warming. Cuthbert is pro global warming

that's really sad though. I really liked Pixel Junk games and I was hoping they would port more of their games over eventually. I totally paid for it. there are times that i've pirated stuff but then again who hasn't If the game is that worth it to me then i will buy it. LIke this weekend i have no money I am totally going to buy trine anyway because I hear it's bad a$$ed and it's really fun. I mean i could have totally probably found a pirated copy of it on the internet but I am not going to because I love sony and all the stuff they make. Really i'd probably be dead if sony didn't exist because i just got a psp go and it then my friend decided she wanted to break up with me...so i just played videogames till i semi- got over it.

Ok, so yes *rage**rage* we all hate pirates.. pirates are responsible for everything that's bad blah blah ok..

Now, can we get some facts? Where is he getting his figures from? How is he determining how badly piracy is impacting their sales and why can't he release that data here? "because Monsters is such a good fit it is being pirated I think," Is not a fact. In general, stuff that involves the words "I think" are not facts. They're speculation.

It's all easy to have a big heartfelt sob about how the nasty pirates are taking food off your table, but for fuck sakes, provide some solid backing to your argument besides teary eyed rhetoric.

Yes. I pirate games. I'll admit it. I also have the biggest collection of original games out of everyone I know. I have a floor to ceiling bookshelf full of original PSP games, NDS games and PC games. Not to mention older stuff like the GBA.

At some point nearly every one of those games was pirated first so I could try it out. If the game was good, I ordered the original.

If it was a rushed product intended to fool me into spending money on a shiny case and empty promises, I deleted it and didn't buy an original.

Developers, yes, piracy happens. However, in general, if your game isn't making money, there are two main reasons.

1) You didn't market it. Nobody knows about it and piracy is probably doing you a favor by letting people try it out and hopefully buy an original.

or..

2) You just made a piss poor product in the hopes that the idiots would buy it before they realized what crap you just tried to foist on them. Most of those pirate downloads you see are people trying it and then getting rid of your steaming pile in disgust.

No, you probably will never stop piracy. So adapt. Start engaging with fans. Build some customer loyalty. Stop trying to screw people.

Have a look at what the Torchlight devs did for that girl who said she can't play with camera shake, and a few hours later they announced they'd added the ability to turn it off, just because of her.

You know what, people out there will go and BUY that game because of that. They will pay for it and if they meet someone who pirated the game, they'll give them hell about it. I'm certainly buying Torchlight the day it releases, no question about it.

That's how you fix things. Not crying about how you're going to take your ball and go home because everyone is mean to you.

It's unfortunate that they chose to port Monsters as their first and only venture. I have no interest in tower defense, but would have loved Eden or Shooter.

Yeah, let's see you try to discourage those evil nasty pirates in those countries who are caught between feeding their families and getting their kids original games to play with.

The PS3 version of PJM is awesome. I'm sad that the PSP one isn't getting the love it deserves. Although, I haven't bought it either. But I also haven't pirated it. I'll get it when I have the money though.

"They can monitor numbers of people who have downloaded a torrent of the game and have an estimate of the pirated copies, comparing this with their sales numbers i am sure is depressing."

This is bullshit. There is absolutely no evidence that these numbers are connected. How do they know how many of those people downloaded the game AND bought it later?


@Sheppy
"Trust me, I know people just like you."

First off, stop assuming.

"How do I know this? 8 million downloads on Crisis Core, 1.2 million sold globally and THAT's the best Square did on PSP. If your theory is true, based on the rave reviews and generally positive reaction to the game, Square would have at LEAST 4 million sales if it was a divisive title. In other words, most saying "try before buy" are fucking lying."

Reviews mean jack shit. I've tried games that got slammed by the reviewers and ended up loving them. I've bought the polished triple A titles and ended up hating them because they were nothing but eye-candy and button mashing. God of War is a great example. The kiddies love it because it makes them feel special. Everyone else realizes it's a rythm game with some violent eye-candy.

If I'd actually paid money for it before trying it I would have taken it right back to the store in disgust.

Crisis Core was just.. campy and dumb. Yes I know we all have to love everything Square Enix shits out... well I don't. If it's good I buy it if it isn't, I don't.

I currently own more original games than I can ever finish, yet I go out every month and buy another 2-3 new games, brand new. Why? Because they're good games and I want to see the developers make money off of them. I've bought Dawn Of War 1 about 3 times over with all the different 'collected' editions of it I've bought. (I've also downloaded it twice when I was stuck somewhere without discs)

I bought Dawn of War 2 online and THEN downloaded a pirated copy so I could play it without having to be logged onto the friggin net with stupid 'Games For Windows Live'.

Hell, Secret Agent Clank is still sitting in its shrink-wrap on my shelf. I played 2 hours of it, realized it was an awesome game, and went down to the game store the following Saturday and bought it.

So get off your silly little high-horse and go buy a dose of reality somewhere. You can also take your holier than thou attitude with you.

Sometimes I wonder, how PSP be right now, if pirating didn't exist, and software sold like ps1 and ps2 games. What's sad is that a lot of my friends just laugh when I buy games acting as if game developers already have enough money. Not everyone in the business is Bobby Kotick and gets million dollar paychecks. Does everyone not remember a lot of studios has either downsized or closed in the past couple of years?

Even Madden had to call it quits on pc due to sales being low. Games just don't grow on trees. I'm not sure why people keep throwing egg in the face of hardworking indiviuals. If people want to boycott by pirating, go pirate rap/rock musicans or movie stars that flaunt their sales on the show Cribs!

Well there's absolutely nothing stopping me from pirating it, but I still haven't bothered.

I bought the PS3 version and thought it sucked. Worst in the series. Only redeeming factor was co-op. So screw this game.

I pirated this game so I could see if it was worth purchasing two copies of the game and another PSP for my S.O. to play with me.

It is, most definitely.

I agree most piracy is leeching money from developers, but sometimes it just isn't.

I don't get it. Isn't it much much easier to play pirated games on the DS? (get a flashcart and u'r all set) How come nobody's thinking to stop making games on DS due to piracy?

You cant stop pirating but you can deter from it. Price your game at a lower than average price point and people who normally pirate games will find it hard not to buy it. The only reason why people pirate game is cause in there eyes some games just arent worth the money spent.

I believe you're looking for the "Ninja Tower"

I bought the game Day 1. I freaking love PJM. With that said, I couldn't play it for a few weeks because there is no way I'm going back to Sony's garbage dump of a firmware. What an inconvience that caused me, the honest costumer. So yes I downloaded a copy but I also bought it. Your piracy figures will be incorrect as I'm sure many people have done this.

well more proof that piracy is hurting everyone, yet the pirates keep claiming they are hurting no one

I don't think it's piracy alone that is reducing sales of PJM. The way content is displayed on the PSN store on PC is maddeningly obtuse (I can't attest to the PS3 store). I had no idea this game came out due to it being dumped into an unorganized "new releases" list.

Considering they just released a download only device, you'd think Sony would have made the PC store better so games like this aren't missed. Currently, the only easy way to find out what really is new is to go the PSN blog on Thursdays.

I get itsa handheld version, but honestly you can find Tower Defense games anywhere for free on the internet, while I certainly don't have the numbers to back it up something tells me everyone having already played this game for free has something to do with it.

i love my psp and the games that have been release but i cant lie either, i do pirate a few games here and there and use it for my emulators and psone games (i own on disc but not on psn besides FF7 and wild arms 1 & 2). I do buy games though, The games i support are quality games like god of war final fantasy dissidia, crisis core, disgaea 1 and 2 etc. i have no problems with buying a game for $40(even though its F#$@ng steep) as long as its a quality one.