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The News: Wednesday November 30th, 2011

Posted on Wednesday, November 30 @ 19:35:34 Eastern by Daniel Bischoff

When you're a big bad CEO with a starring role in a Brad Pitt movie, the smack talk can come fast and hard. That's exactly what we learned today when Bobby Kotick, head of Activision said today that "[George] Lucas is going to be the principal beneficiary of the success of Star Wars [The Old Republic]." Activision comes from knowledge on subject after the luke warm releases of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed and The Force Unleashed 2. Kotick even went so far as to cast doubt on the MMO's sustainability saying "If you look at the history of the people investing in an MMO and achieving success, it's a small number." Kotick then proceeded to wipe his butt with a piece of Activision Blizzard stock.

CD Projekt, developers of the PC-exclusive Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings told reporters today that by some estimates the game has been pirated 4.5 Million times over, after selling just over 1 Million copies through to gamers. "The reality is probably way worse." You'd think a company suffering from such "demoing" would respond with DRM, but CD Projekt is instead focusing on adding value for gamers who've purchased the game legally and by educating PC gamers on how legally purchasing software is the right thing to do. Good luck with that one guys.

Battlefield 3 has successfully grasped a handful of market share in the busy holiday season with EA CFO Eric Brown stating that they've shipped 12 Million copies to retail and sold 8 Million copies through to consumers. He then proceeded to wipe his butt with a piece of Activision Blizzard stock.

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Tags: the news, Activision, MMO, EA, Star Wars, CD Projekt, Battlefield, Piracy

Comments

213EDD
Joined: Sep 2007

Posted: Nov 30th, 2011 at 8:13 pm
They should spend less time worrying about Witcher 2: AOK being pirated and spend more time making the gameplay good and the other aspects playable. Despite that the sex scenes are funny as ****.

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C_nate
Joined: Apr 2009

Posted: Nov 30th, 2011 at 8:34 pm
Doesn't matter how much DRM they throw in there. All it does it hurt the people who actually buy the game. I've skipped quite a few PC purchases over the years because I won't put SecuRom on my system.

Seems like more people are using Steam as the default DRM for their games. While it is annoying at times, at least steam also serves a dual purpose as a games platform and digital distribution place. So if the choice is between invasive DRM and Steam, I'll chose steam every time.

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Bras
Joined: Jul 2008

Posted: Nov 30th, 2011 at 8:38 pm
Its something similar to digital music, but I think people there are a bit more educated (not talking about the justin biever pirates, but the ones for more underground and not mainstream stuff).
Someday a good video game company is gonna suffer because of it, won't release more games and then we are gonna suffer because of it, I hope that day arrives soon so we realize the consequences of piracy.

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sliverstorm
Joined: Jun 2007

Posted: Nov 30th, 2011 at 9:50 pm
Four point five MILLION times? It should be prerequisite that all estimates of piracy be accompanied by a detailed methodology explanation.

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