except this is not just another shooter, but cricket anyone getting this game knows and wants cricket on their systemA lot of people who would pirate a game would never have bought it in the first place.
except this is not just another shooter, but cricket anyone getting this game knows and wants cricket on their systemA lot of people who would pirate a game would never have bought it in the first place.
Sales conversion for piracy in general is no where near 100% either, regardless of platforms. A lot of people who would pirate a game would never have bought it in the first place.
No one assumes that at all, that's an incorrect assumption on your part.
We also have data on the Xbox and PS3 torrents/Academy usage - not even close to the PC numbers, on PS3 it's almost insignificant.
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At this point I would say that we have committed to PC versions and so we will still make them for our games. It may change the timing though, two months is probably not long enough it seems. Make no mistake, I want the sales to be better on PC.
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but I'm not convinced that piracy is the problem.
[Total Playing]India 89.67%
[Total Paid]India 9.7%
Whut?
That's Facts.
That's almighty tweaked.
Any of us who paid for this game have absolutely, unequivocally every right to do whatever it takes to burn these stealing assholes to the ground, they're ACTUALLY ruining the development of this brand before our very eyes.
Unbelievable.
but I'm not convinced that they would have bought the game.
TMy point is meant to be that the key is converting the pirates to customers somehow, and I get it becomes very emotional, but I just think a different way of looking at it's needed.
I think the Australian stats are pretty decent, you UK folk could do with supporting it a bit more... For King and Country, dammit.
It's irrelevant. They're STEALING IT NOW. If 10% of them go out and buy it tomorrow, there's still 70% of them breaking the LAW! It's a ridiculous statistic and my original faux-joke kinda makes me a bit sick now.
If we find out in 6 - 10 months time there won't be DLC for DBC14 or (worse) a DBC15 you can point to that stat, blame India, and there's absolutely no way it's not true. It's disgusting.
I'd be surprised if there's money to be made in supporting PC development for any titles, to be honest. You can take a loss on the Platforms to launch a franchise, but those kinda numbers on PC are irreversible.
i don't think there is any possible way to convert any of them except by one of the following approaches:
1)crack specific bugs, restricted access to online features, downloads etc. so that they can see how much less an experience they get by pirating rather than buying - which big ant seem to be already doing
2)deciding that PC isn't worth it, restricting it to consoles where piracy is significantly less, and hoping to convert as many as possible PC pirates into console customers. (i said 10%, which in the indian context would still be great numbers).
but you seemed to have a problem with both of those approaches. so what would you do?
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biggest problem in the UK is you simply cannot see/find the game anywhere. not so much an issue for the PC version due to steam, but on console it's rarer than rocking horse shit.
we've had the debate about whether it's the publisher/distributor/retailer/bill from marketing's fault, and there seems to be a distributor change and a recent post from Ross saying it should be easier to find here, but i would guess the UK console sales will have inevitably suffered from its invisibility.
true story - i found PC, and ultimate discovered DBC, because i was looking for info on the Ashes Game (around the time of the first or second Ashes delay). if not for this site, I would have no idea about DBC.
if not for this site, I would have no idea about DBC.
Ultimately though the game needs to succeed in the UK and Australia for there to be another version. I can't believe Ross was banking on substantial Indian sales to prolong the franchise.
The Indian piracy thing is obviously appalling but low sales in the key markets are what will prevent future versions as far as I can see.
I'd be very interested to know how the piracy looks with India out of the picture.