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"Eradicate Piracy"

How many people only a bought a playstation when it surfaced that, a little chip or "Cheat cart" could let them play back-up games, which a mate of a mate could get. With-in a couple of years of this the cd-r market was in lift off. But wait who made the best cd-r's and the best cd-rw drives to back up Playstation games, Sony. Sony knows fine well that it made a back-door killing on the playstation through piracy. 75 million ps's sold worldwide, but the number of games sold is minimal for a figure this size. Sure it would have made more money if everyone had bought all of the original games and piracy ad never existed, but in reality it wouldn't. Now everyone knows someone with a CD-r drive, everyone knows someone who copies games and anything else worth making money from. Even sales on the dc picked up once the news that pirated games had been produced whilst the n64 fell by the wayside. But at least Sega had made a valiant effort to curb piracy by producing GD-Roms. One of the first big news stories about the ps2 other than record numbers being bought worldwide, was the fact that it could be chipped. Piracy is a scurge on the face of gaming, even the most law abiding of people seem to have a disregard for thier morality when it comes to piracy. I'm sure once the ps2 drops in price that sales of pirated games, cd-r's and cd-rw drives will again hit record levels worldwide, as people will not be so worried about having to replace faulty ps2's out of thier own pocket. But at £300 each they'd think twice. Here is where console manufacturers are in a catch 22 situation, high console prices and low software prices inhibit piracy, but they make very little money, as do the games firms themselves. Low console prices and high games prices sends piracy through the roof. Sony made a lot of money out of the Playstation because early on it was expensive and there was little piracy, no one had really thought of it. Now, people will hold off buying games and consoles until it is as cheap as possible foe them to break the law but still make great games.

But how does the games industry stop piracy???

Kingpin is miles better, btw!!

turbonutter wrote:
> Bonus wrote:
> Nope I've got it on the PC, in it's full online
> broadband, mouse
> & keyboard glory.

Git.

Winning doesn't fuss me, theres not a better feeling than walking into game or checking SR and spending my hard earned cash.

The Game wrote:
> Nice topic, it has a good chance of winning,

Someone will have
> to come up with quite a fancy review today to beat Sheepys GameBoy
> Advance thingy though!

Game

Bonus wrote:
> Nope I've got it on the PC, in it's full online broadband, mouse
> & keyboard glory.

Git.

Nope I've got it on the PC, in it's full online broadband, mouse & keyboard glory.

Nice topic, it has a good chance of winning,

Someone will have to come up with quite a fancy review today to beat Sheepys GameBoy Advance thingy though!

Game

You like PS2?

At least we agree on one thing. Have you got Quake 3?

I only wrote 4000 words, and I made a couple of topics, this one, The Future of gaming has come and gone, and Consumer Apathy at it's best in the PS2 section, and I am defending them honourably.

Granted. You win.

Can I just ask, how did you notch up 200+ posts in 2 days?

For a company to develop a CD drive with a CCD (the light inside a scanner) it would cost a fair bit because the light may interfere with the lasers operating, it's not just a case of bunging one in and hoping it works, and anyway it would be firmware in the drive which would control it, firmware=software=always crackable

Admittadly, I don't know much about CCDs, whatever they are, but I do know that light detectors aren't that much, and I didn't think they would bump up the price that much.

Anyway, HOW MUCH ARE THEY?