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Originally Posted by Krylo
I would think the 'try it before you buy it' people would be more likely to download games that reviewed poorly. If everyone says a game is great there's not that much risk in just buying the game. If everyone says a game is average or not that good, maybe you'd want to give it a 'rental' first.
But that doesn't mean I'm surprised that games that review highly are more often pirated. If I were a video game pirate (which I am, unfortunately,* not) I'd be downloading games that I was excited about rather than choosing to get THIS AAA title today, and maybe that one when I can afford it unless something that looks better comes out.
*I know too much about the economics of video games and care too much about the industry continuing to expand to pirate games, but I could have so many more games if I did pirate.
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I'm going to play the devil's advocate here.
It may still be a try before you buy thing because higher reviews and hype tend to have a peer pressure type effect toward sells, regardless if you like the game or genre. Like I bought MW2 even though the only thing I liked about MW1 was the single player game. I'm no good at fpses, and Im far worse at ones where death is so easy. Game got good reviews, I still dont like it, though I own it due to the reviews>.<
Reviews don't mean anything anyway. Transformers War for Cybertron is probably one of the best multiplayer experiences I've ever had as far as fun in a shooter and it got meager reviews(could go into the Gamespot review that had to be reedit after posting due to grievous errors in describing the game, but they just removed the errors and kept the score the same), but not what it deserved. Anywho, the sheeple tend to think review < 7 isn't even worth the time to look at and I'm sure that shows in piracy as well.