Piracy & PC Gaming on the Sins of a Solar Empire Website

[Dopefish]

There is an awesome story about piracy and PC gaming on the Sins of a Solar Empire forum. I completely agree with this guy and I really wish more developers and publishers would think this way. I think another example of a game like this is World in Conflict.

So here is the deal: When you develop for a market, you don't go by the user base. You go by the potential customer base. That's what most software companies do. They base what they want to create on the size of the market they're developing for. But not PC game developers.

PC game developers seem to focus more on the "cool" factor. What game can they make that will get them glory with the game magazines and gaming websites and hard core gamers? These days, it seems like game developers want to be like rock stars more than businessmen. I've never considered myself a real game developer. I'm a gamer who happens to know how to code and also happens to be reasonably good at business.

You can read the entire story here:
Piracy & PC Gaming » Draginol

[Craig]

dead on man...I mentioned this in my editorial a few weeks back. How Sony tries to create the market, instead of meeting it. PC publishers spend so much money on marketing because they know once it hit shelves, we'll actually know how good (or bad) a game is. And if its a stinker, you can bet no one will buy it.

Their only hope is to get us so hot and bothered that we just HAVE to get it the second it is available to retailers. Good read Dope

[K_Dog]

Thanks enjoyed it.

[BuddhistSoldier]

Good article. Never even knew about those games.