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Valknut on 13 November 2009
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nightsurge said:
jefforange89 said:
And I'll say it again: you seem to be working under the false assumption that a pirate copy equals a lost sale.

Which, in truth, it's typically the opposite - most pirates wouldn't buy the game it that were their only choice. Thus, it doesn't actually affect the publisher or developer in the slightest.

You gave a very weak example of this argument.  I think it is actually the reverse.  A pirated copy (or download) equals more than one lost sale.  If it's been pirated, it can be spread to any friends, family, etc. without any of them having to buy it themselves.  If one friend pirates it, then other friends play it and want to play with him, that friend can just burn them a disc with the cracked game and have instant free gaming.  Most people don't even see PC game pirating as a bad thing, just like song downloads.

Your arguments are garbage, if you know how to pirate and you know people who pirate bring them here to talk for you.

I DL a good chunk of games here and there and I can rarely play any of them for more then an hour, but games I do like that have a great reason to pay for the real game like L4d WoW FFXI Fallout 3 Oblivion Dragon Age all have been bought.

 

Games that I have bought out of impulse or reviews have all been terrible! Age of conan Warhammer being the 2 top examples CoD:MW would have been a much better game minus the grandes, in fact I petion for calling it Call of Grandes: Press g for win 2!

 

Most pirates will not buy a game they download, and if they do? its a plus 1 to sales not minus 100k.

 

Edit ** Not to mention console piracy may not be as easy as PC, but its out there and its having an effect. Xbox 360 is the new PS1 and the DS is the new PSP, or something like that. In fact both the hand-helds are both R-tard easy to get free games on.