Another Look At Piracy

[vlad321]

Jereel Hunter said:

vlad321 said:

Ail said:

Dude, I'm not the one that just made 20+ posts trying to explain how people pirate because they feel the software isn't worth the asking price...

You are the one that tried to explain that to us. And then you post data that totally invalidate your arguments, so where are you getting at ?

These statistics don't show anything that invalidates the fact that people don't think somehing is worth it.

As you can see the average paid for those is aron $8 and in the very initial post it's said that they would be near $80. That right there shows you that what developers feel entitled to is very wrong. Add to that the convenience and everything, on top of he price, and you get a pretty complete picture of pirates.

You have a flawed arguments.

The average person paid $8. $8 for 5 games. Somehow, the average person wants to pay $1.60 per game. This means the average person is CHEAP. Do you know how many games would succees at that price? Even Blizzard, selling 10 million+ copies of their most popular games would lose money at that price. Granted, these aren't blizzard quality titles, but the point is that the average consumer wants to pay a lot less than things are worth. That shows you right there why pirates are a problem. a game costs $40, a pirate says "I would only pay $2." And then they proceed to acquire it for $0. Guess what? Games are expensive to make, and thus expensive to buy. Honest people buy the ones they feel are worthwile, and rent or don't play the rest. (And yes, renting is viable. Play a crappy/short game through for $5, and at least the people who make it get a little something)

From what I can tell they've made over 1.1mil and moved abut 125k. I wonder if they would have done so without the correct pricing. That's 1.1 million more than they would have gotten than if the price wasn't changed.