tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8365338746336019717.post8744245179363791670..comments2023-11-03T01:54:42.953-07:00Comments on Dark Castle Blog: Slight news, and major apologies.Jon Godhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05489428845688762625noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8365338746336019717.post-45512158429163991812008-03-13T17:38:00.000-07:002008-03-13T17:38:00.000-07:00Being someone who buys sony consoles, I am questio...Being someone who buys sony consoles, I am questioning your meaning.<BR/><BR/>If anything, Microsoft would be a better example.<BR/><BR/>And I don't think Apple goes out of their way to make the copy protection weak, and I think if they had signs of large amounts of people were pirating it, I wouldn't be surprised if they suddenly made it have much better cop protection.<BR/><BR/>I will not get into an argument on why pirating is good or bad, or what one can do to "Justify" it. That would go nowhere, I just hope that people are willing to spend money on Dark Castle, to show the developers that they made a really amazing product.<BR/><BR/>Of course there will always been, and will always be a way to steal, I don't think there is any reason to implement more copy protection, if people are going to pirate it, the odds are this wont stop them, but it doesn't mean that every good piece of software, that is piratable sells well. Look at the PSP for an example, there are 20 million+ sold, yet, there are only a few games that have sold over 1 million. The PS3, which has sales around 10 million, has twice as many if not more games that have sold over a million. What's wrong with this picture? It's very easy to pirate on the PSP, where it is not possible at the moment on the PS3. <BR/><BR/>What it means is that a system, with as much potential as the PSP, wont get the games it deserves, due to big companies worried about pirating. I would assume that SHFF heard something about this sort of thing at the last moment, and thought it was an important thing to add.Jon Godhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05489428845688762625noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8365338746336019717.post-24458305044501261532008-03-13T16:43:00.000-07:002008-03-13T16:43:00.000-07:00don't pull a sony. If you make a good product, pe...don't pull a sony. If you make a good product, people will pay for it. Don't spend your resources trying to fight your customers to force them to give you money. Think like apple. They implement the WEAKEST form of copy protection on their iWork and iLife products. Because they know that they are good and people will pay the price because it's cheap and easy. I pirate lots of programs, not because I'm evil, but because I'm tired of getting "locked out" of programs that I legally payed for. If the program is good, I'll buy it. I've had my money in hand for a long while now. If you want it, here it is.<BR/><BR/>p.s. there will always be a way to steal. So don't fight it, it's an uphill battle you'll never win. Just be a cool developer and make a kick-ass product. The money will come.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11124857335194322030noreply@blogger.com