AceRadd

Killzone's made by a Dutch company, not a UK one.

Alphathon: On the other hand, you could say a pirate was never going to buy the game anyway, so no loss or gain. But a Used sale could have easily been a New sale.

I hate arguments like this, because there's never any definitive answer, but at the end of the day, everyone's probably right in some way.

I don't think the guy had anything to do with Beautiful Katamari. IIRC, he wanted to end the series after the second or the PSP one, but he didn't own the rights.

Tomorrow, if Wikipedia's to be believed.

I'm not really a big fan of Penny Arcade, never really found them funny before, but I had to give my vote to them this time. Probably the most I've smiled at a webcomic for a bit.

If you buy it from the developers' page (http://2dboy.com/games.php), it's a bit cheaper at about £14.

For a minute there, I thought you meant the developers had gone bankrupt. Had me worried for a minute there.


About the 90% piracy rate, they've said themselves, it's not entirely accurate. It just compares the number of different IPs the game's been run from, to the number of sales.
I've got the game on my laptop and played it online from Uni once without thinking, so that's probably counting my Uni IP as a pirated copy, even though it's definitely not.

I think they said, taking into account things like dynamic IPs and people moving about, the piracy rate is probably closer to 80% (personally, I can't see it being even that high myself, but I'm not trying to say nobody pirated it.

Still, anyone who pirated this should be ashamed.

"LBP was great until they started modding everything, I don't blame anyone for not picking it up after that."

The moderation thing was a bit overblown, nowhere near as bad as the internet'd have you believe.

Still, the moderation's died down even more now. Lately, you have to be hanging around on LBP fansites 24/7 to spot anyone whining that their level got taken down (and then usually it's because it was "Little Big Twin Towers" or something).

It'd be nice if used games were actually that much cheaper than new ones.
I've actually seen used games being sold for a fiver more than new copies just across the aisle from them.


The car analogy sucks, btw. Cars don't tend to end up being sold as used after a day or two, and games definitely don't lose half their value as soon as they're taken out of the shop (unless you're the one trading it in, rather than the shop selling it).

I think I read something about series 2 of PixelJunk being 3D a while back.
Wasn't their take on it going to be something like 3D with a PS1 style poly count, but high res textures?

Can't wait for PixelJunk dungeons, I hope it still comes out some time this year.