Video Game Piracy costs the industry as much as it makes!

[LuckyTrouble]

KLAMarine said:

LuckyTrouble said:
*sigh* Once again: piracy does not equal lost sales. Every person that pirates did not intend to buy. The vast, vast majority of them would never spend their money on the game, for one reason or another.

Demand for a product and demand for a paid product are two very different things.

You know there also exist pirates who would have paid if they were unable to pirate a free copy.

Which is entirely irrelevant because as long as the pirated copy exists, they are not a potential sale. They would only be a potential sale in a scenario where piracy was not an option. Your argument is basically a survey argument, where we can ask people and they'll say "well yeah, I guess I'd buy it if I couldn't pirate it", but that's not any kind of factual commitment that can be seriously used.