The thing that pisses me off the most about game pirates...

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Boneitis said:

darklich13 said:
What really pisses me off is the amount of money we have to pay for games because of Pirates. Imagine if new games cost $40. Think of how many more games you would buy!!

You seem to presume pirates would actually go out and buy games. I have a friend who buys pirated games for only $5.

I remember retailers selling SNES games for $70 and piracy wasn't a problem yet. So I doubt we would only be paying $40.

Part of that I believe was that cartridges were just more expensive to manufacture then.  CD's are quick,easy, and cheap to produce.  You only have to write and stamp the CD, not much else.

With a cartridge you have to make the cartridge, write the board, assembled the cartridge, make the label, and apply the label.

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That said, if it weren't for piracy I don't think games would really decrease in price, I just think games would have either bigger budgets or more games would be made.