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[SR]Caveman · 10-05-2006, 01:55 PM

I don't think it is necessary to make excuses for whatever problems a Publisher might be having. To be honest, their accounting books tell a far better tale than we could. I think the best we can do is simply to acknowledge the fact that the sunny picture of everyone doing just grand in the publishing world is not accurate and leave it at that. I wouldn't say that piracy is the cause of a Publishing houses woes and still wouldn't list that as a reason. But more importantly, the small developer should not be glossed over. The financial fragility of the smaller business is far more relevant that a gigantic corporation that can withstand times of financial hardship. And as GM said, CDV Europe is going down.

And your article is not "the drm part which is also being demonstrated against". It is anti-DRM day. In big letters on the page. As for posting this article, I think it was a good idea as it leads to some interesting points being made (for instance by KamisoriX). But I wouldn't call the CP the most interesting part seeing as there are two dead SF threads and one dead SF poll within easy reach. I joined this discussion because it was not a dead horse but instead a digitally owned and created horse protected by copyright. you may say "anti-cp day" but the link you provide does not.

As for Company of Heroes, I think they made a great game. I also am amazed at the truly brilliant marketting job they did. I am still trying to figure out how they did it. They threw a lot of capital into promoting that game and it worked really well for them. I think there is a lot to be learned from that. But we didn't get any bad press from SF. We recieved good reviews on Rush for Berlin. As you can see by the anti-SF poll here, it doesn't have much impact at all on sales. And I haven't been fighting the SF battle in as many places as you claim. There is this site, the official site and two more places. That hardly covers the whole internet. You do have a tendency to overblow (and distort) things which I don't think is necessary (i.e. anti-DRM day becomes anti-cp day).

So I may as well ask you Gazz: Do you want to change the name of that day from Anti-DRM day to Anti-Copy Protection day and make this thread about copy protection? If you do then it is boring and doesn't interest me. There are two more threads here on cp that I can talk in already. Just let me know and you can continue on with your anti-cp rants without me.

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[SR]Caveman is on the 4th circle: Avarice & Prodigality Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 554 Hellbux: 21,424	I don't think it is necessary to make excuses for whatever problems a Publisher might be having. To be honest, their accounting books tell a far better tale than we could. I think the best we can do is simply to acknowledge the fact that the sunny picture of everyone doing just grand in the publishing world is not accurate and leave it at that. I wouldn't say that piracy is the cause of a Publishing houses woes and still wouldn't list that as a reason. But more importantly, the small developer should not be glossed over. The financial fragility of the smaller business is far more relevant that a gigantic corporation that can withstand times of financial hardship. And as GM said, CDV Europe is going down. And your article is not "the drm part which is also being demonstrated against". It is anti-DRM day. In big letters on the page. As for posting this article, I think it was a good idea as it leads to some interesting points being made (for instance by KamisoriX). But I wouldn't call the CP the most interesting part seeing as there are two dead SF threads and one dead SF poll within easy reach. I joined this discussion because it was not a dead horse but instead a digitally owned and created horse protected by copyright. you may say "anti-cp day" but the link you provide does not. As for Company of Heroes, I think they made a great game. I also am amazed at the truly brilliant marketting job they did. I am still trying to figure out how they did it. They threw a lot of capital into promoting that game and it worked really well for them. I think there is a lot to be learned from that. But we didn't get any bad press from SF. We recieved good reviews on Rush for Berlin. As you can see by the anti-SF poll here, it doesn't have much impact at all on sales. And I haven't been fighting the SF battle in as many places as you claim. There is this site, the official site and two more places. That hardly covers the whole internet. You do have a tendency to overblow (and distort) things which I don't think is necessary (i.e. anti-DRM day becomes anti-cp day). So I may as well ask you Gazz: Do you want to change the name of that day from Anti-DRM day to Anti-Copy Protection day and make this thread about copy protection? If you do then it is boring and doesn't interest me. There are two more threads here on cp that I can talk in already. Just let me know and you can continue on with your anti-cp rants without me. __________________ Community Manager - Stormregion Makers of Codename Panzers Phase 1 and 2 and Rush for Berlin Our latest title (Coming in March 2008) is: Codename Panzers Cold War Visit us at Stormregion! To find out more about who I am: http://www.stormregion.com/forum/viewtopic...2514e70186b414e