Comments on: PSP Piracy Making Square Enix Nervous

By: PlayStation LifeStyle » PSP Trophies Have Been Denied

PlayStation LifeStyle » PSP Trophies Have Been Denied — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 11:00:42 +0000

[...] Time and time again, developers and publishers alike have put blame on the PSP piracy pandemic. Yet certain gamers are still adamant about piracy having any kind of effect on the lackluster sales of PSP games, instead passing the blame onto things like marketing, the 50+ million unit install base, and competition from other handhelds. However, the PSP hacking community is not only limiting PSP game sales, but also PSP functionality–more specifically, Trophy support. [...]

By: DGR8Mc187

DGR8Mc187 — Mon, 11 May 2009 20:47:42 +0000

Isn’t the 360 kthe king of pirated games hmmm , seems a little stupid dosn’t it?

By: shadowjin

shadowjin — Mon, 11 May 2009 18:14:17 +0000

@ TheHater

exactly my point..

By: Bacon4thetakin

Bacon4thetakin — Mon, 11 May 2009 11:18:19 +0000

I agree with the thought of feeling proud to own an actual copy of the game. That’s why I searched for months to find an affordable copy of ICO for PS2, when I could’ve easily just downloaded the ISO if I felt like it.

By: nikrel

nikrel — Mon, 11 May 2009 06:33:17 +0000

I’m not a fan of SE, but anyone else that has read my post in the other SE news posts can see that.

By: Jeneric

Jeneric — Mon, 11 May 2009 03:53:30 +0000

cant say i could care less about square enix.

By: Sneeches

Sneeches — Mon, 11 May 2009 00:40:13 +0000

piracy has been around forever…. and i dont think its going away. Either way SE is right, they should be proud to own a copy of the game.

By: SPD55

SPD55 — Sun, 10 May 2009 22:53:37 +0000

The reason that piracy happens is that some people just don’t want to pay for something they feel is to expensive. Although I can’t afford a lot of video games each year I don’t like piracy. I think it dimishes the developers revenue and when they have less revenue then they can’t put all the things in the game because they don’t have the money for R&D to find out if they can actually do what they were thinking of..

It is why technology in the market place is behind the curve. Of what R&D has sitting on the shelve waiting to make money with… One idea is video phones, they were actually developed in the late 50′s and have been sitting on the shelve in the labs until the phone networks could handle the data across the wires. Now there is Fibre Optic lines installed and still now video phones on the retail market…

Well a lot has to do with piracy in China and the rest of Asia…

By: MakaiOokami

MakaiOokami — Sun, 10 May 2009 22:45:08 +0000

@Gunak people dont’ need to stop pirating. Pirating is how a lot of bands were discovered, it’s how a lot of cds have enjoyed boosted sales, it’s how I found out about almost all my favorite animes which I now own, it’s how games without demos can be sampled.

Honestly in a way I kinda blame Sony for a lot of the piracy stuff. If they had just left Homebrew in the PSPs there would have been a lot of people enjoying free apps on their PSP without the worry of pirating.

IMO

By: SolidCake_

SolidCake_ — Sun, 10 May 2009 22:07:50 +0000

@ voyou san – lol

By: KnaveX

KnaveX — Sun, 10 May 2009 22:07:30 +0000

@voyou San

Damn u, u stole my thoughts.

By: GunaK

GunaK — Sun, 10 May 2009 20:45:45 +0000

people need to stop the piracy.

By: Voyou San

Voyou San — Sun, 10 May 2009 20:44:44 +0000

they are so afraid of the PSP piracy yet have no problem releasing on the 360 which is also heavy on piracy… just make everything for your new butt buddy SE and get it over with..

By: shadowjin

shadowjin — Sun, 10 May 2009 20:28:28 +0000

what about digital download? ohhhhhh thats right.. bigger audiance…..