Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Finally this section focuses on current game releases and Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Looking at how much an illegal downloader would be willing to pay, the quality of the game, and the views on the people involved in making the game.
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Graph Q1)
The graph shows the majority of Illegal downloaders generally purchase from 1 - 2 games per month, 26.6% and 18.1% respectively.
What was not covered in this questionnaire was if people purchase during the first weeks? Or do they purchase when a PC game is reduced on sale? It would be interesting to find out when illegal downloaders purchase and at what price do they decide a game is worthwhile?
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Graph Q2)
What is interesting here is the answer "Too Expensive" (10.4%) which was one of the top answers for most of the questionnaire, but now it comes in third place.
The top two answers are "I need to try before I buy" (25.2%) and "Most are not worth the purchase" (19.3%). This implies before the expense of the product that people are looking for quality and good value games.
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Graph Q3)
There is and was a huge hype around the release of Deus Ex: Human Revolution. The average critic scores reflect this, as MetaCritic has it at 89% and user score at 8.4. This also accounts for a huge number of pre-orders and illegal downloaders seriously considering purchasing it.
The top answers are "No, I will buy later" (24.8%), "Yes, I Pre-Ordered" (23.8%), and "No, I am thinking of buying" (23.7%). "No, Too expensive" (12.4%) is fourth, showing that when good quality games are released, the question of expense is less important.
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Graph Q4)
At first glance it may seem strange 23.8% of illegal downloaders would pay the full retail price. But we assume that this refers to the people that have pre-order the game, which also happens to be 23.8% (In Question 3).
We know that many people pre-ordered copies of Deus Ex: Human Revolution on the bases of playing the pre-build leaked version. Suggesting potential customers are glad to buy games, but might not want to be committed to 3rd party companies. From experience we have also seen downloaders purchase steam protected games, but illegally download them as to have freedom of access.
The graph shows that most illegal downloaders are willing to pay €22.49 or $24.99 (13.4%) for Deus Ex: Human Revolution. The average is €25.40 ($28.23) and the median is €22.49 (or $24.99). The mode in this case is very unique, at €44.99 (23.8%).
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Graph Q5)
There was a large range of answers for this question but the general consensus is a score of over 85%. The official PC Game Critics, score Deus Ex: Human Revolution as 91.26% (GameRankings) and 89/100 (Metacritic).
From the responses of downloaders, discounting the "Blank" answers, we worked out the Average, Median and the mode. The average was 82.09%, the median was 90%, and the mode was again unique at 110%.
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Q6) Was there anything you did not like in Deus Ex: Human Revolution?:
The majority of people found this game to be excellent and the general comments were:
• No complaints, the game was great.
• Control System, Xbox Pad.
• Minor Errors.
• Only Played for a short amount of time or Interrupted from Game!
• Loved the first game of the series.
• Gameplay.
Some Responses:
"I was expecting much better graphics. I plan on pirating the PC version and buying the PS3 version."
"I like it so far, I've just played for a couple of minutes, but I'm getting it. Some sort of Co-op multiplayer would be nice, or some DLCs. "
"overall is very good until it closed by it self to answer this question, really annoying if you want to know..."
"visual graphics on guns, older games has better graphics on the guns, the mini map is worthless."
"So far it's generic crap, I'm just killing time really"
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Graph Q7)
The graph shows that illegal downloaders rate Eidos, specifically the Montréal studio, as a "Very Good" (39.9%) developer of games. What is surprising is that no one chose the bottom two answers of "Very Bad" and "Bad". This goes some way in proving that Edios must be a developer of good quality Games.
Past Games list:
Tomb Raider series
Hitman series
Deus Ex series
Kane & Lynch
Thief series
Championship Manager series
Legacy of Kain series
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Graph Q8)
Square Enix was also rated highly, with 35.4% choosing "Very Good". Again this shows that Square Enix must be a Publisher of good quality games.
Past Games list:
Final Fantasy
Dragon Quest
Kingdom Hearts
SaGa
Tomb Raider
Hitman
Deus Ex
Thief
Legacy of Kain
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