They invented shareware.

Turkey’s first torrent support website http://www.torrentdestek.com

+1 for a good initiative.

http://www.newdgamez.com

Yea they should be allowed to pirate them. So they can play the game on their pimped out pc of 10 dollars?

He’s got a point there…

They invented shareware.

Again.

I will have to agree that less than half of the games I downloaded were worth buying. However, that’s what competition is and if you fail then you’ll see what Mr Darwin was talking about ;D

As for offering services along with the game, there are types of games that can’t really offer much in online services (i.e.: God of War… duh). However, if those games are good enough and entertain the users they will be bought and my case is a pretty good example. I have finished God of War II 3 times b4 I bought the game and it’s right here in my hands smiling at me, simply because it deserved to be bought – it actually had the power to be a good entertainment.

kudo’s to the dev’s brave move!!

Yes. $10 is cheap. But for the families below ultra poverty levels in Romania, Turkey, former Soviet Republics, and the slums of China, Phillipines and India…$10 is about one months income.

There will always be people that are simply too poor to ever afford to pay, some that are too cheap to buy, some that like to try and then choose to buy a quality product for a reasonable price, and there are those that will buy no matter what. The RIAA/MPAA/corporations keeping attacking the try-before-buying and potential cheapskates that may become paying customers one day.

A customer that is called names and attacked will most likely never buy your products again. If you owned a fruit/veggie market and had customers touching, sniffing and examining the product…then you fly in and call them thieves and criminals and threaten to sue them all, would most people come back? NOPE!

The greedy RIAA/MPAA/corporations just don’t get it. And they wonder why piracy is becoming more and more rampant. Idiots.

Err no, other way round. When you buy a game for £40, and it sucks, it is a waste of money.

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The game is reasonably priced at $10.

Good move.

There is no reason not to support it by buying it if you want all the features. Anyone downloading the hacked full version, you better be poor as dirt or I think you should feel terrible about yourself.

How are they going to be able to afford the pricing which might be already be offputting for Germans, Brits and Yanks?

Their income is a fraction of ours, even though in many cases they have the same education, skills and talent.

They are going to pirate, and as long as they do it, why shouldn’t we?

Game development is really labour intensive and expensive (have worked in that field). They’ve got to get back the money spent on development.

Saying that, still be aware that EA Games and the likes are still greedy and very aggressive corporations, on all fronts.

It would be better if all games were open source and not created for profit at all. Not sure how feasible that would be.

Enjoy your minimum wage jobs in factories kiddies, because by devaluing IP, you are going to end up carrying boxes by the time you leave school.

as for the games on torrents advertising it will only work for a select few game devs as there are only a few devs who actually make good games enter valve they made half life and are now huge because they make good games i don’t know how it works for EA and there shotgun approach

on another note one of the major parts of the gaming industry is to push the bounries and make a better game than the rest (including graphics, story, gameplay and ofcourse multiplayer) the movie industry applies the same model as EA shotgun

If they sell even one game (or service) because of this, it’s better than selling zero games/services.

There is so much more than could be tied in to the product. I never tried the game, but perhaps they can sell special edition games, actual bicycles and other types of related hands-on products. Perhaps even sell pre-paid cards that could be used to download music and other games at a discount. I’m no marketer or promotions master, but there is so much more than can be done with giving away a freebie over through torrent technology.

Once they figure out they can save so much money in manufacturing and packaging and simply let everyone else promote and distribute their game for absolutely free, that is one large cost that they no longer need to worry about. Pass that on to savings for ‘torrent only’ purchases at a much reduced price making it more attractive to torrent users.

Surely someone should be able to figure something out.

absolutely

download the cracked “single player” version from the filesharing networks and if you want the full game experience you buy the online “multiplayer” version protected by authentication servers

even better, if you want the ultimate gaming experience you buy an xbox360, ps3, Wii and HD TV (why not also take a HD cable or satellite subscription too) and spend hundreds of dollars a month on DRM games for the consol that you tried first on the PC. that is what everyone does and that is where the money is, in the gamer networks

the very very few game manufacturers that are complaining about filesharing are mostly medium size companies that do not understand why nobody wants to play their games. could it be that nobody has heard of your games? you have gotta get your games onto the gamer networks, fighting filesharers is going to war against your own success

http://www.h33t.com is on his dance mat tonight, did you know you can use your hands too? is not a pretty sight but it is the most fun i have had with the family. yeah that and Guitar Hero 5!

If I were a “hacker” I wouldn’t hack it.. because they deserve it.

@9: I do agree with you.. Torrent tech is too much powerfull. I think that’s why companies are not using it.. they are afraid of being out of control after they use it.

There is so much more than could be tied in to the product. I never tried the game, but perhaps they can sell special edition games, actual bicycles and other types of related hands-on products. Perhaps even sell pre-paid cards that could be used to download music and other games at a discount. I’m no marketer or promotions master, but there is so much more than can be done with giving away a freebie over through torrent technology.

Once they figure out they can save so much money in manufacturing and packaging and simply let everyone else promote and distribute their game for absolutely free, that is one large cost that they no longer need to worry about. Pass that on to savings for ‘torrent only’ purchases at a much reduced price making it more attractive to torrent users.

Surely someone should be able to figure something out.

to top this , this is very good move by RedLynx.