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Opinion: Piracy & Casual Games - The Follow-Up

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2008-02-27 16:00:33 by Simon Carless in GameSetWatch
...Ricochet Infinity pirated it. It went on to look at what happens when DRM is improved for the game, suggesting: "For every 1,000 pirated copies we eliminated, we created 1 additional sale As it happens, I ended up cutting 3 pages from that article while writing, which is very abnormal for me, but it was just too dry a read to keep all the...
 
Tags: piracy, piracy stats, follow-up, fix, drm fix, stop piracy, casual, fight piracy, original article
 
 
 
 
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Opinion: 'Casual Games and Piracy: The Truth '

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2008-02-13 00:00:22 by Simon Carless in GameSetWatch
...Ricochet ) reveals the 92% piracy rate for one of his company's games, and what worked (and didn't work) when they tried to fix it It looks like around 92% of the people playing the full version of [the pictured] Ricochet Infinity pirated it. Its moments like those that make people in the industry stop dead in their tracks 92% is a huge...
 
Tags: casual games, casual, casual games space, piracy, games, free, drm-free version, obsolete sales flat, obsolete sales
 
 
 
 
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I am a Predicting Trajectory Master

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2008-07-23 10:00:00 by bs angel in Hawty McBloggy Invites You to Play
...ricochet three times before entering some unsuspecting souls skull. Seeing clips like this aggravate me for two reasons, one being these things absolutely never happen to me. If my bullet is going to ricochet numerous times, it is going to hit a teammate or an explosive barrel located within one inch of said teammate. The other reason is that...
 
Tags: bullet, sniper bullet ricochet, damn bullet stop, stop, snipe, extremely lucky snipe, ricochet numerous times, times, sniper bullets bounce
 
 
 
 
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Call of Duty 2 - Game review

2006-02-07 21:45:35 by Jacklyn in Video Games Information & Articles
 
...ricochet echoes as bullets whiz by, and the shouts of your commander as he screams orders directing you and your squad. It really merits 5.1 surround sound and some decent speakers to do it justice
 
Tags: duty, call, line computer system, decent sound card, bullets whiz, american trooper, video card, ricochet echoes, front lines
 
 
 
 
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Opinion: Carroll On Understanding The Casual Gamer

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2008-01-09 08:00:30 by Simon Carless in GameSetWatch
...Ricochet ) looks at how developers can identify the mysterious 'casual gamer', examining definitions and play motivations - I think this is useful analysis indeed On Black Friday, I headed to the local GameStop, arriving about 30 minutes before opening. I was intent on scoring the newly released Zelda version of the DS, and figured that with...
 
Tags: play, play casual games, casual games, casual, casual games space, survey, casual gamer survey, casual games market, casual gamers
 
 
 
 
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Piracy a huge problem for casual game devs

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2008-02-12 00:00:00 by Justin McElroy in Joystiq
...Ricochet Infinity pirated the game Carroll goes on to weigh the various causes for the problem as well as possible solutions, but he also mentions that his company handles digital rights management in-house rather than outsourcing them like most of the industry. ... Are we the only ones that look at that fact and think that just maybe we've...
 
Tags: piracy, percent, percent thefts, casual, carroll, russell carroll, ubiquitous piracy, journalistic ineptitude lead, off-the-mark statistic
 
 
 
 
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Gaming Today Q&A: Bizarre Creations' Community and Web Lead, Ben Ward, On The Club

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2008-02-13 22:41:41 by Jonathan in Gaming Today
...ricochet to take out the next enemy, but should I go for the multi-kill on the next two bad guys by shooting the gas tank, or will I get more points for taking them out individually? Their eyes light up and all of a sudden they are possibilities everywhere in levels Man, when we first gave the SEGA QA team the code to test we were confident...
 
Tags: key game mechanic, game mechanic, club, game, in-game placement, bizarre, game development, gratuitous violent game, club stems
 
 
 
 
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Casual Games and Piracy: The Truth

2008-02-13 18:14:25 by Editor in N4G.com : News Feed : gaming
 
Just how rampant is piracy in PC casual gaming? In a startling instalment of his regular Gamasutra column, Reflexive's director of marketing Russell Carroll (Wik, Ricochet) reveals the 92% piracy rate for one of his company's games, and what worked (and didn't work) when they tried to fix it
 
Tags: piracy, regular gamasutra column, games, casual, russell carroll, rampant, instalment, fix, reflexive
 
 
 
 
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The Sunday Papers

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2008-02-17 12:29:09 by Kieron Gillen in Rock, Paper, Shotgun: Making False Idols For 2008
...Ricochet Infinity were pirated. Blimey. However, where it gets even more interesting is their analysis of the effects of DRM. Effectively, they have to annihilate 1000 pirate copies to net a single Sale. Blimey again more
 
Tags: sunday, sunday lunch, diverse thoughtful matters, orange box, postmortemly fashion, russell carroll, ricochet infinity, blimey, internet superstar
 
 
 
 
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The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

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2008-04-18 10:42:02 by Ariella in Legacy Games Blog