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| Subject: Food for thought - Valve: Pirates Are Just Underserved Customers Tue Jan 20, 2009 10:51 pm | |
| http://www.gamedaily.com/articles/news/valve-pirates-are-just-underserved-customers/?biz=1&page=1 - Quote :
- The final sacred cow that Holtman took a stab at was the issue of piracy. "There's a big business feeling that there's piracy," he says. But the truth is: "Pirates are underserved customers."
"When you think about it that way, you think, 'Oh my gosh, I can do some interesting things and make some interesting money off of it.'"
"We take all of our games day-and-date to Russia," Holtman says of Valve. "The reason people pirated things in Russia," he explains, "is because Russians are reading magazines and watching television - they say 'Man, I want to play that game so bad,' but the publishers respond 'you can play that game in six months...maybe.' " | |
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