Goofyman

Piracy isn't a new thing, anyway. Even when there was no copy protection besides writing in a word from the manual, it was still easy enough to pirate games if you knew someone that had it. It's just that with the prevalence of the internet, it's very easy to do at no charge and (reasonably) no foul. The developers are out of sight, out of mind. Most pirates I've encountered do so because they like to try before they buy, and since most games that come out are bad, not much gets bought. People prey on consumers to buy crappy things.

Infomercials are an example of this same situation. Some of the infomercials have products which are good, but most of them are really bad and crappy and a cheap way to make money. Same with games. The difference is that with games there's a means to try before you buy that infomercials don't present.

The pirates who just blindly grab things with no care to the people who worked on it are not going to be swayed by anything. Look at Sins of a Solar Empire, a good game and exactly what some pirates complain about. Yet, I imagine it is heavily pirated like everything else. Some people just don't care.

The anti-piracy ads about stealing cars and piracy being one-in-the-same have it wrong. If you gave people a way of getting cars as easily as piracy, I imagine they would do it.

I think this article has it right. Game companies need to focus on making games good. The profits the game needs to bring in to recoup the development cycle can't be the main concern, because then you have a game that exists to recover losses and not to entertain. Why do you think Miyamoto continues to make games that people enjoy and buy? His paramount concern is making the game enjoyable.

Other developers need to adopt this attitude, and I believe they'll see their sales going up.

I remember when my family got the Gamecube. Our dad spent all of December subtly hinting that there was no way he could get a Gamecube, that there was a ton of demand and every time he tried he got shut down.

So, of course, on Christmas day we unwrapped a GCN and Melee, and proceeded to play the heck out of it for two days straight. I'll never forget the joy, but also the gratitude that my dad had put so much effort into trying to make us happy; thanks, dad!

Unsolved Mysteries is no longer on the air on Lifetime.

In case you were wondering.

Actually, I remember the day after I played Wii Sports for like 10 hours. I was so sore, it was painful. Now it's not so bad, I'm used to the extensive use and it's good, the initial is bad.

Also, boxing does make you sweaty. You're constantly moving.

Really? I found out at a test unit in Gamestop, I was tinkering with it there. I guess as #4 said, people don't like to look around settings...