Comments on: EA doesn’t think BitTorrent downloads of Spore mean lost sales

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 15:12:15 +0000

Where can i get a bootleg copy?

By: James

James — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:26:53 +0000

This is boardroom politics at work. Some exec somewhere made a case for DRM and won, it`s impossible to back down now because of pride. That`s where EA`s `policy` comes from and is why it is so disconnected from the real world.

EA made a mistake and lost a lot of sales, because someone didn`t have the guts to admit they were wrong. Many people who might have bought this game will spend there disposable income elsewhere.

DRM is a failure for EA, all you can argue about is the magnitude.

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EA Doesn’t Think Pirated Copies Of Spore Mean Lost Sales — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:01:17 +0000

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By: griffon

griffon — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:50:35 +0000

The pointless FUD that EA is trying to suggest here about the torrent aside, they are completely correct in that not all or even a significant portion of down loads translate into a loss of sales. There is no way to say that if the torrent did not exists that the pirates would not pirate it some other way and never buy it, nor that joe consumer torrent and not buy. Equating downloads with lost sales is the same smoke job that the RIAA and other dirty dirty names have been blowing for years. Many studies have shown just the opposite, that wide illegal distribution has actually created revenue by generating a larger base.

Course EA would probable have sold more copies vs. torrents if they had not put on the heavy handed DRM to annoy direct customers, something the torrent dose not suffer from :p. Proving once again that DRM is dumb and only costs customers and companies and does nothing to block illegal distrobution.

Yet sales of spore have been great, despite hte torrents and despite EA trying to shoot themselves in the foot with DRM. Go figure, a good game a good movie, good music will always win. It’s only crappy releases that don’t.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:48:25 +0000

El Beetorren en espanol!

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Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:15:21 +0000

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By: Kyle

Kyle — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:41:23 +0000

Hmmm, my bootleg copy of Spore works great, that doesn’t however change the fact that Spore sucks.