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Gecko
United States519 Posts
On November 16 2010 12:10 NovaTheFeared wrote: Yes, I'm glad we didn't get LAN, ruining finals and high profile tournaments, so Blizzard could put a halt to piracy.  Blizzard will probably just make LAN copies and distribute them to tournaments, thats what they did with WoW arena. | ||
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wherebugsgo
Japan10647 Posts
Hell, I'm fairly sure there will be a LAN workaround created by hackers/pirates in the near future. Blizzard has to do something, especially with the e-sports scene at risk of mayhaps like MLG Dallas. There's not much you can do about power outages, but lag and disconnects are very preventable. With LAN support, obviously. | ||
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Meta
United States6225 Posts
Seriously though, isn't sc2 unpirateable? You can't play on bnet, there's no lan feature... Last time I checked, the only thing that makes this game amazing is the competitive nature of multiplayer. The pirates are frankly shooting themselves in the foot and missing out. It's almost more sad for them than it is for Blizzard  The campaign was great, I guess, but it's so ridiculously shallow compared to the multiplayer aspect it almost pains me to think that some people out there think that the campaign is the only aspect to this game worth sinking their teeth into. | ||
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moopie
12605 Posts
As such (while single player piracy does certainly exist) these numbers aren't reliable. | ||
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Contagious
United States1319 Posts
On November 16 2010 12:13 Plexa wrote: I would bet that a number of those illegal downloads are actually people just annoyed with the speed of the blizzard dl  QFT. I had to download it like this for my laptop since the disc drive is broke. | ||
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Tazza
Korea (South)1678 Posts
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Xapti
Canada2473 Posts
What would be interesting to know though is how many people downloaded the pirated game without buying it first, and those who bought it after they played/downloaded the pirated version. My bet is many people just downloaded it via torrent for friend invites, because they lost or don't like using DVD, or felt like the download would be faster over public torrent for digital purchase as opposed to blizzard's download. You'll also have people who trade the game to a friend because they don't like it or because they're done/bored with it. Of course lastly there's the people that try it via pirated, then buy it later. | ||
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prototype.
Canada4215 Posts
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GinDo
3327 Posts
A friend of my found out that if you installed the trial and disconnected from the internet you could play single player for as long as you like. Free Story and VS. AI mode. Blizzard is more concentrated on the Multiplayer faction of the game | ||
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ckw
United States1018 Posts
On November 16 2010 12:14 Omigawa wrote: I can see both sides of the argument (not that there are only two sides); of course it's wrong to pirate, but why should a college kid have to pay $60 for a game he may or may not like because the developer won't let them demo the game? I've been on forums where a lot of the users torrented Crysis just to see if their computer could run it. I think the statistics are slightly misleading (can't play multiplayer, I doubt everyone who downloaded it actually played a significant portion of the game, etc), and in this case I don't think those 2M downloads automatically correlates to $180M in lost profits. What do you mean? There's plenty of ways to demo SC2, it's just not an easy hand-out. Plus the game hasn't been out very long, Blizzard is already allowing Latin America to have 2 free days of play to demo it and more will come. 60$ is not a lot of money at all and it's the same collage kids who can't "afford" to pay for SC2 that go out and spend 60$ on a night of partying every day of the week. | ||
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Phaded
Australia579 Posts
On November 16 2010 12:15 Gecko wrote: Blizzard will probably just make LAN copies and distribute them to tournaments, thats what they did with WoW arena. They don't have LAN copies for WoW Arena, they play on specially dedicated tournament servers, but they are not on-site AFAIK. (MLG confirm?) | ||
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Kyhol
Canada2575 Posts
On November 16 2010 12:13 Plexa wrote: I would bet that a number of those illegal downloads are actually people just annoyed with the speed of the blizzard dl As soon as I read this I thought the exact same. | ||
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Irrelevant
United States2364 Posts
On November 16 2010 12:13 Plexa wrote: I would bet that a number of those illegal downloads are actually people just annoyed with the speed of the blizzard dl That's the reason why I downloaded it, I bought my copy but blizz downloader is retardedly slow compared to torrents. | ||
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skirmisheR
Sweden451 Posts
On November 16 2010 12:14 Omigawa wrote: of course it's wrong to pirate It isn't wrong to pirate. It's how technology works. You need to see piracy from the history's view instead of blizzards/other companies' view. Don't just assume it's wrong to pirate :S | ||
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ionlyplayPROtoss
Canada573 Posts
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TheFinalWord
Australia790 Posts
On November 16 2010 12:36 ionlyplayPROtoss wrote: I don't understand. How would they play anthing other than maybe campaign without a cdkey and bnet account? Well if you have 7 gigs of free bandwidth and the campaing is "free", why wouldn't you download it. Assuming multiplayer is as secure as I think it is, If I was blizzard I would be happy so many people were getting access to starcraft and incentivised to try there hand at multiplayer with a legit copy. I think this would only increase there sales as the people who only wanted to play campaign were probably not going to buy it even if they weren't able to torrent. Therefore, no lost sales and potentially gained sales by providing an extended trial. | ||
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Yoshi Kirishima
United States10366 Posts
I mean cmon, if you like what they do, just pay. $60 really isn't that much... especially if you have a job. Although I guess that's a problem, a lot of people (like teens/kids) may not have jobs yet. I don't believe it's nearly as bad for a pirater, however, to pirate a game planning later to support the company (i think the fairest way would be to pay back in full directly as a donation, not buying another copy lol), because in the end they're giving the company what they want, but yeah it's still not the best method (enter argument here about people's individuality and how some people's bad choices should not case the banning of others who do the same thing but make good choices xD). Thanks for sharing though, but yeah they can't play online (unless if someone set up an illegal server or something, but that's WAYY over the line and they can be in big big trouble). Hopefully they'll buy the game sometime though, the campaign is like a demo for the multiplayer in this case xD | ||
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RedHelix
250 Posts
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ZataN
New Zealand414 Posts
I had to play the game, blizzards fault as far as im concerned | ||
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boxzi
Canada14 Posts
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