PC Gamers Are Pirates: ID’s Sick Of It!
- Scribbled on March 9th, 2007 by Derrick Schommer
- Filed in GDC, Industry News, PC, Platforms, WTF
Are you a PC gamer? Are you a PC gamer with a few games that you might have copied from a buddy, used Daemontools to hijack or… have a patch, parrot and scream “AAARG!!”
ID Software may have found their solution: console game development.
At an early session Friday, id Software CEO Todd Hollenshead gave a lecture on the problems of piracy on the internet. During his speech, Hollenshead revealed that, although they are still primarily a PC developer, id Software had begun to look at console game releases as a way to financially combat piracy.
ID Software has a good claim, it’s harder to pirate a console because you’ve got to put a lot of work into the hacks and mod chips, potentially destroying your hardware. PC’s are an open market for the pirates and the software tools that exist make it easier to handle.
Most gamers that pirate games do it because its not a hard thing to pull off. Put up a few barriers, like potential destruction to a $400 product and you’ll think twice, right?
(Thanks, joystiq)
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