Karma. I love it sometimes

I have been in the PC industry for the past 18 years and i can promise you that piracy isn't killing the PC industry. Let me explain.

I live in a small town. Many of my cusomers that visits the shop for modding stuff or fan's or whatever, comes to me and "brag" about the games they got from friends or downloaded. I used to get angry but then i saw a pattern taking shape...

They pirate the game, waits till it comes down in price and then buy the platinum or exclusive title. Remember in this sunny country of ours, a xbox or ps3 game costs about R690 when it is new. 8 or so hours later you finish the game and normally it gathers dust. Now many people can't even buy 1 game in 2 or 3 months but as soon as it is R299 or less, the situation changes.

Piracy doesn't kill the industry.... Greed and markups kill it. It costs millions from the time the writers comes up with a game to the actual delivery to the shop, but that is no excuse. Games are too expensive. I love gaming and it is nice to own original games BUT on this forum there is nobody that hasn't pirated games, software or MP3's on our machines.

Like some pirates say " If you like the game, buy it".
 
Raven Gold said:
Pfft. There was a chip out for the PS3 a few months after it's releace.
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As far as I know there isn't a true working hack for the PS3 though. There was some exploit that allowed Uncharted to be run on an origanl PS3 with the first firmware, but that's about it.

Not nearly the level of piracy that the 360 sees.
 
There's also a hack to get PS2 backups working on a PS3, but only if you have a PS3 with backward compatibility.
 
Tyger said:
PS3 games still can't be pirated.
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crazydude said:
As far as I know there isn't a true working hack for the PS3 though. There was some exploit that allowed Uncharted to be run on an origanl PS3 with the first firmware, but that's about it.

Not nearly the level of piracy that the 360 sees.
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Tyger said:
There's also a hack to get PS2 backups working on a PS3, but only if you have a PS3 with backward compatibility.
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You two people sleeping? :rolleyes:
Ps3 is just as popular as xbox games, on the torrent sites.
 
Tyger said:
But can you play the PS3 games you get on torrent sites? Or just wonder why you've wasted your hard drive space?
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Yes you can. PS3 piracy is significantly less than PC and Xbox 360 purely because of the hefty cost of a Blu-Ray writer and discs. DVD writers come with every PC nowadays and you can get a pack of DVDs for less than a pack of smokes.
 
Blackhand said:
Yes you can. PS3 piracy is significantly less than PC and Xbox 360 purely because of the hefty cost of a Blu-Ray writer and discs. DVD writers come with every PC nowadays and you can get a pack of DVDs for less than a pack of smokes.
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Can you show me, and the rest of the internet how please?

We have all been oblivious about PS3 piracy until now, here's a handy explanation:
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Subversion said:
yahoo answers is a less credible source than even wikipedia ^_^
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Yeah, but I just picked a link at random, there are other more credible sources I've read over the years with the same answer, which I would have linked to if I could remember where they are.
 
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