Another Look At Piracy

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vlad321 said:

Ail said:

vlad321 said:

Ail said:

You are saying that quality of a game and it's price have effect on the piracy level of a game...

I'm saying that the fact that a game can be pirated has an effect too. And you will be hard pressed to argue about this. 

If it can't be pirated, piracy level = 0...

Yes except that would mean that if piracy level = 0, then sales would be even larger, which you cannot show me at all. Again, the US and Netherlands have both said that they can't say that piracy actually affects sales, and that if they do it's a minimal amount.

 

Lets say piracy is made impossible tomorrow...

What are you going to do ?

Stop gaming ?

Or buy some games...

Buy the same games I would have bought even when piracy existed, and not even bother with the rest. Actually I'd miss on some amazing games, cause I sure as hell wouldn't have bought games like World of Goo and Machinarium. I doubt most pirates would magically start buying games either. I doubt the people in poor countries will start buying games, or the people who think that games are not worth the money will magically start buying games.

P.S. Except that you'd have spent the money on gas somewhere else. Meanwhile they stated that piracy increased the amount of money one would have spent by getting people to buy related products, not just substitute X for Y.

Well the question I would ask is if you weren't going to buy them or couldn't afford them or what not, where's the entitlement.  I can understand pirating with some form of justification as it can't actually be phsycially bought.  Then I could see some sense of entitlement because you wanted to buy it but physically couldn't so this is the only way of obtaining it.  But for simply being on a tight budget and unable to obtain something you might want or slightly interested in, do you think you are entitled to obtain it?  Rather curious.