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An Interview With Epic's Mark Rein @ Gamasutra
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Kristophe
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An Interview With Epic's Mark Rein @ Gamasutra
   

Gamasutra's Brandon Sheffield and Epic's Mark Rein get together to bring us this direct <a href="http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20050719/sheffield_01.shtml" target="_blank">discourse</a> entitled "Unreality: Epic's Mark Rein on the Future of Game Middleware"... <br> <br><blockquote><em>Gamasutra: Activision and THQ have both publicly said that their retail costs will go up $10. <br> <br>MR: I don’t believe that’s going to happen. I’d be very shocked. I think they’re going to try, there’s no question, but honestly I don’t believe that. I honestly think the market won’t bear it! We’re already paying $50 per game, I honestly believe for the majority of games, the market will not pay $60. <br> <br>That’s just going to drive piracy through the roof, and people are just going to revolt. I think we spend enough money on games, and I just don’t think that’s reasonable. I think what you need to do is make better games, take your time, do them right, and sell more! I don’t think we’re ever going to have 20 million selling games, until we bring the cost of those games down, not up. I think the way to build the market is to decrease the cost of the games, not increase the cost of the games. <br> <br></em></blockquote>
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The Funny part is that I agree with him! There's no reason to pay more. And yes, piracy WILL increase "over/through the roof" so they say. Why there is piracy in the first place is because people are lazy they dont work and want short-term results. So instead of paying the OVERLY priced $50 they just pirate games and other products.

I think that if there would be better games and these better games would be fairly priced, for example $30-$40 (Just like Mark Rein thinks) then the industry will be willing to pay for the games. What is better, 50*3 million (just an example, dont know exactly what are the stats) or 30-40*5-10 million (Again, dont know exactly the stats).
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Post Wed Jul 20, 2005 7:23 pm
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What´s a "fairly priced" game? It´s highly subjective. For many pirates a 10$ game is about 9.5$ more expensive than the empty DVD they need to copy it.
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