ils411 said:
1. and i know tons of people who cant afford to buy psp games but bought psps anyways coz they hacked their psps to hell and download all the games they want, pirate style 2. very true, as i said, i know a ton of people who bought psps and just priated the game. if the psps were not hacked to hell, none of them would have bought psps so, yeah no lost software sales. on the positive side, they made sony some money by buying the hardware. 3. maybe, mabye not. thee are a lot of bastards out there who, even though they can afford it, wont spend a dime on things that they can get free even if it means priateing shit. like, instead of going to the movies, they'd just go out and buy a bootleg dvd copy of the movie for 1/10 the price of a movie ticket. their reasoning? why pay for anything full price when i can get it dirt cheap or beter yet, for free. the good thing this, this "ton of peope" is nothing compared to the volume of people who do not pirate. 4. there are many actually when just looking at the numbers. but when compared to the entire population of decent people, they barely matter. |
1. Agreed
2. Agreed.
3. Not statistically there aren't a lot. The people you are talking about are statistically irrelvent even among pirates. If you removed the option of piracy from the equation most people who pirated wouldn't buy the games still. Some would, but ALSO some who bought the games due to them pirating wouldn't. The majority of studies show that these two groups actually offset. In a "piracy free" world, developers would not make any more money according to most government studies, and in some would actually make less.
4. There aren't many when looking at the numbers though... compared to pirates in general. Not just "decent people".