Piracy on the rise everywhere

[.jayderyu]

ecurbj said:
The market is still healthy right?
We are still gaming right?

So whats the point of piracy? The majority of the ones that piracy a game is the hardcore base. The casuals make up the market so they don't know anything about piracy.

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This is it man. This is the answer. Piracy has ALWAYS been around. Piracy is done by a portion of the hardcore base. Since before gaming became accessible to the large market it was just in the domain of that hardcore. This means that piracy was far more rampant. My years of the old dos gaming I saw piracy way more often than I see it today.

YET after the massive focused hardcore piracy the companies are still around and doing well.  Outside of copyprotection system to annoy only the mass market purchasers of games. Piracy isn't everywhere more than before and as the market expands the percentage of piracy will decrease.

If you make games that apeal to less to that hardcore it will get pirated less.