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Old 05-17-2011, 08:14 PM   #3110
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Lionhead Studios joins a growing list of studios that hates used games but unlike others, they tried to explain that used games are worse than piracy itself.

The studio blames how used game sales on the Xbox and Xbox 360 hurt them more than the problem of piracy on PC. The studio also gave up trying to protect their games on PC by saying pirates will always find to steal/crack a game and decided to switch their focus on the used game market instead.

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"Piracy these days on PC is probably less problematic than second-hand sales on the Xbox," commented Fable III lead combat designer Mike West. He added, “"I've been working on PC games for many years and piracy is always a problem. There are a lot of honest people out there as well, and if they like your game they'll buy it.”
The studio also considers PC to be more of a side project with the Xbox 360 as priority when developing games. They even felt every Fable III sale was a "bonus" than due to them working hard on the PC version of the game. Their whole focus for Fable III regarding development, hype, and advertising was on the Xbox 360 version with the PC version seen as a side or after-thought


http://gamrfeed.vgchartz.com/story/8...m-than-piracy/
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Quick News round-up:

1) Sonic Generations will be going to the PC and 3DS to go along with the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions after Sega leaked those platforms in their financial report.
2) Square-Enix trademarks "SE Masterpieces" as a new product brand with rumors ranging it being used for collection sets to HD remakes of previous games.
3) Mass Effect 2 interactive "Genesis" comic from the PS3 is now available on the Xbox 360. The comic is on sale for 320 MS Points.
4) After apologizing for a lot of things, Sony will not apologize for waiting over a week to inform people their Credit Cards were potentially stolen. Sony also tried to deny they knew of the problem for 9 days and did nothing as saying other companies do the same thing with a few even waiting longer to do something.
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