Another Look At Piracy

[Ail]

Kasz216 said:

Ail said:

Kasz216 said:

Ail said:

vlad321 said:

Ail said:

vlad321 said:

 

I want it pirated so the developer knows that they should not be asking $60 for a game that is ridiculously bad next time they release a game.

But you said yourself, piracy has no effect at all on developers, so why should they bother about how much a title is pirated ?

Because instead of 3 million pirated copies maybe they would have had 3 million sales, maybe even more for anyone who just decided to refrain from buying it and pirating it.

But but, piracy does not affect sales !!!

That is the whole argument you have been posting on this forum over and over for the last year............

 

Are you suddenly changing your mind ???????

 

No... he's saying if you charge 30 dollars for a game worth 30 dollars... more people may actually buy it.  That at a lower Price Activision is likely to create more sales.

If a pirate does pirate something he wouldn't pay 60 dollars for... it doesn't mean he wouldn't pay 40, or 20.

 

Nope, he is saying that if less people decided to pirate the game ( for whatever reason, be it price, quality or another reason) more copies would be sold..

 

That seem to be like he's establishing a clear relation between the number of pirated copies and the number of copies sold..........

That isn't a clear relation between the number of pirated copies and the number of sold copies at all.

Afterall, he's saying if something chagned.  IE, Price or Quality.

Not "If piracy stopped."

 

If it was a better game more people who didn't pirate the game would sell it.  The same is true with it was cheaper.  However by studying your piracy vs sales numbers... it can tell you a LOT about the product.

Not really , you and Vlad are both saying that those pirates under different conditions could be potential buyers...

So if piracy was not possible isn't it reasonnable to consider that some of those pirates could translate as buyers ?

It seems so to me. So just by its existence, piracy does indeed affect sales....