Another Look At Piracy

[vlad321]

Ail said:

Kasz216 said:

vaio said:

Ail said:

Piracy only works as long as some people pay for the software, that's were all the pirate logic is flawed...

If every consumer did like them, there wouldn't be any product on the market anymore because developers couldn't afford to develop them....

 

Which is what makes pirates parasites, in the real sense of the term ( and not smart consumers as some try to portray themselves).

In your world maybe but in reality:

 

Pirates are the video game industry's "largest customers"

It has become a common occurrence across all the major entertainment industries to blame loss of sales on pirates. Of course, why wouldn't they blame it on the law-breakers who are known to snag the game for free, rather than actually buying it legally. But, recently, some major studies are being developed that aren't supporting this statement, and are actually proposing quite the opposite.

 

After a study done on Dutch file-sharers, Prof. Nico van Eijk of the University of Amsterdam concludes, "These figures show that there is no sharp divide between file sharers and others in their buying behaviour. On the contrary, when it comes to attending concerts, and expenses on DVDs and games, file sharers are the industry's largest customers... There does not appear to be a clear relationship between the decline in sales and file sharing."

 

It seems, that rather than these file-sharers stealing more and buying less, they are buying more games than the average consumer - quite to the contrary of popular belief. See below:

Intresting that there was a study involving games.  Tons of music studies and book studies... not many game ones out there.

 

What I find more interesting is how often these studies contradict some of the things pirates usually post around.

One of the others arguments we usually hear is that one of the reason people pirate is the lack of economic power and that they would not be able to afford to purchase the game they pirate anyway and then this study comes and says that pirating is not a money issue..........

 

It is a money issue. It's how much a developer asks for their game. The reason pirates buy less is also because pirates have a better grasp of the quality of a given game than non-pirates. So if a pirate plays a game that is ok and costs only about $10, then there's a much higher chance he will buy it than a non-pirate.

Back at the start of 2008 I had 0 Steam games. Currently I'm at 112, and a bunch of retail ones. I'd like you to show me how many high and mighty non-pirates on these forums have even come close to supporting the game industry as much as this lowly morally corrupt pirate.