Comments on: To Answer All of Your Questions http://www.ska-studios.com/2008/04/10/to-answer-all-of-your-questions/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:15:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: jetsetlemming http://www.ska-studios.com/2008/04/10/to-answer-all-of-your-questions/#comment-207 jetsetlemming Wed, 21 May 2008 01:05:15 +0000 http://skasoftware.wordpress.com/?p=80#comment-207 PC Piracy is a red herring- have any of your other games ever ended up pirated? Not that I've ever seen. You have to reach a certain, very high, level of public awareness before you become even the most remote blip on a warez group radar- they're in it for the popularity and bragging rights, not to fuck over the little guy. You can release a PC game for free with antipiracy, distribution, purchasing, and consumer monitoring all handled by Steam, ala Steamworks. Even for the highest of the high profile games released on Steam it typically takes 2-3 weeks before the first crack comes out, and two months for a reliable one, long after the initial sales rush has ended and anything left is far less important peripheral sales after the fact. Steam games in general are far less effected by piracy than typical releases anyway, because they overcome one of the biggest reasons for some pirates- ease of acquiring and using the end product. In Steam a customer can click a download link, follow some links through paypal, verify the purchase, click ok, and have the game download and install on its own in a few minutes entirely without any need to mess with it. No muss, no fuss, and its made a huge difference. Please don't turn your back on us. :( We're the ones who know who you are. The Xbox crowd has never played SCZ. They never played Zombie Smashers. They aren't particularly looking forward to what you've got. WE ARE. PC Piracy is a red herring- have any of your other games ever ended up pirated? Not that I’ve ever seen. You have to reach a certain, very high, level of public awareness before you become even the most remote blip on a warez group radar- they’re in it for the popularity and bragging rights, not to fuck over the little guy.
You can release a PC game for free with antipiracy, distribution, purchasing, and consumer monitoring all handled by Steam, ala Steamworks. Even for the highest of the high profile games released on Steam it typically takes 2-3 weeks before the first crack comes out, and two months for a reliable one, long after the initial sales rush has ended and anything left is far less important peripheral sales after the fact. Steam games in general are far less effected by piracy than typical releases anyway, because they overcome one of the biggest reasons for some pirates- ease of acquiring and using the end product. In Steam a customer can click a download link, follow some links through paypal, verify the purchase, click ok, and have the game download and install on its own in a few minutes entirely without any need to mess with it. No muss, no fuss, and its made a huge difference.

Please don’t turn your back on us. :( We’re the ones who know who you are. The Xbox crowd has never played SCZ. They never played Zombie Smashers. They aren’t particularly looking forward to what you’ve got. WE ARE.

]]> By: redneckrampage http://www.ska-studios.com/2008/04/10/to-answer-all-of-your-questions/#comment-206 redneckrampage Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:24:05 +0000 http://skasoftware.wordpress.com/?p=80#comment-206 I agree - James you gotta make a PC version - Piracy is not only a PC problem it's also rampant on Console crap - I supported you in the past and will in the future for PC games I agree – James you gotta make a PC version – Piracy is not only a PC problem it’s also rampant on Console crap – I supported you in the past and will in the future for PC games

]]> By: masterofpuppets2 http://www.ska-studios.com/2008/04/10/to-answer-all-of-your-questions/#comment-205 masterofpuppets2 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:18:07 +0000 http://skasoftware.wordpress.com/?p=80#comment-205 No Windows version planned? James... Please... You, I, and God know you're going to do it so why dance around it? The game was originally announced for said system so it's a good idea you carry on with that. However, I do understand the difficulties of multiple controllers, shitty keyboard support for console-to-PC ports (see Onimusha 3 Demon Siege and Devil May Cry 3 Special Edition), and rampant PC piracy. So perhaps what you could do is work on the PC version afterwards with some extra help or if you don't want to take the trouble, dump all the porting shit onto another company to take care of. Us PC gamers frequently get the shitty end of the stick when it comes to getting games nowadays in lust of console profits, so please don't be like them. No Windows version planned? James… Please… You, I, and God know you’re going to do it so why dance around it? The game was originally announced for said system so it’s a good idea you carry on with that.

However, I do understand the difficulties of multiple controllers, shitty keyboard support for console-to-PC ports (see Onimusha 3 Demon Siege and Devil May Cry 3 Special Edition), and rampant PC piracy.

So perhaps what you could do is work on the PC version afterwards with some extra help or if you don’t want to take the trouble, dump all the porting shit onto another company to take care of.

Us PC gamers frequently get the shitty end of the stick when it comes to getting games nowadays in lust of console profits, so please don’t be like them.

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