Ubisoft commit commercial suicide

[vlad321]

Miguel_Zorro said:

vaio said:

Miguel_Zorro said:

Galaki said:
On the music sales. While the physical sales have been on decline year over year, the opposite the also true for digital downloads.

Sales are still there, just not in the arcane form that the big corps are used to do and they are afraid of change.

I just posted statistics showing that the digital sales have not been close to enough to make up for lost physical sales.

1999 was a record year for the music industry ofcourse they wouldnt be beating that, did you expect them to be breaking records every year?

So to make a comparison to a record year ofcourse any study will show decline.

Which year would you compare it to?  A comparison to 1998 or 1997 also shows a massive decline.  Almost every year from 1999 earlier was a record year, since the size of the record industry was growing almost every year before piracy arrive on the scene.

 

As he said before up until then it was a pretty big phenomena culturally. Going by your evidence the same is true for the NBA. It was huge up until the late 90s, when people like Jordan and Magic Johnson left. I hope you are smart enough to realize that there are such things as peaks and troughs, especially depending on the times. Hell up until earlu 2000s, the dotcom businesses were booming too! Did piracy fuck that up too? I think you are forgetting one VERY important thing correlation does not show causation.

P.S. Piracy has existed since before even digital media existed.