{"id":568953,"date":"2010-05-18T13:30:09","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T17:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/?p=158714"},"modified":"2010-05-18T13:30:09","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T17:30:09","slug":"epic-games-says-something-silly-about-piracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/568953","title":{"rendered":"Epic Games says something silly about piracy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Anyone else tired of video game publishers complaining about piracy? Like, human nature is such that you’ll always have a bunch of knuckleheads who will hop on BitTorrent<\/A> and download away. Forget them, they’re jerks. Just focus on the non-jerks out there and go about your business. Anyhow, today the spotlight falls on Epic Games, makers of Unreal<\/i> and Gears of War<\/i>. Seems those guys think that all the money these days is in consoles, so PC gamers will have to get used to crummy ports or nothing at all!<\/p>\n

Said<\/A> Epic Games President Mike Capps:<\/p>\n

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\nWe still do PC, we still love the PC, but we already saw the impact of piracy: it killed a lot of great independent developers and completely changed our business model… So, maybe Facebook will save PC gaming\u2026 but it\u2019s not going to look like Gears of War.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Where is it written that Gears of War<\/i> is the end-all, be-all of video games? Not going to “look” like the game? What, dozens of shades of brown and gray? Gears<\/i> was a lot of things, but I don’t know if I’d ever call it “pretty.” Slow down, Epic. It’s not like you’re making Okami<\/i> over there.<\/p>\n

But let’s not single out Epic Games. It’s the same story over and over again: piracy is killing us, so we’ll have to do something else. Of the Xbox 360<\/A> and the PS3<\/A>, what has the most piracy? Pretty sure it’s impossible to pirate PS3 games. And what system has done better, sales-wise? That would be the Xbox 360.<\/p>\n

So clearly piracy = ruination. Not that I’m defending piracy, of course, but I would appreciate if publishers would find a new demon to blame their ills on. Maybe sun spots?<\/p>\n

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Anyone else tired of video game publishers complaining about piracy? Like, human nature is such that you’ll always have a bunch of knuckleheads who will hop on BitTorrent and download away. Forget them, they’re jerks. Just focus on the non-jerks out there and go about your business. Anyhow, today the spotlight falls on Epic Games, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":683,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/683"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}