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Well I am not really into just posting up likes but today I though hey why not seeing as I have not posted anything in quite a while.
So here is a game developer, who runs his own single person game development business, that decided to find try to find out why people pirate his game. Yep it has been on lots of new sites etc but I figured i should link to his report. Basically he asked people who pirate his games to email him with the reasons why. He seems to have taken on some of the comments on board and is altering his approach to business slightly. I guess the real test is whether his alteration are effective over a longer time period. Here is the link. Piracy can and has killed computers as games platforms in the past, Just look at what happened to computers like the Amiga and Atari ST. If people pirate games on the PC then companies no longer support it as it becomes less cost effective – they move to consoles, iphone or something else. If you like playing games on your PC buy them don’t pirate them.
In other news the beta for NetBeans6.5 is out. I have not had much time to play with it yet so I can’t comment yet.