ZenfoldorVGI said:
Alright, so here's what we've got. I don't believe these "studies" because more often than not, they are done halfassedly. Not only that, many times they don't actually exists, and I can rarely find links to the data or methods under which they based their assumptions. On top of that, pirates and PC gamers are the number 1 group of people, in my experience, who like to use supposed studies to prove points they can't make themselves, with real work and logic(there is a PC fanboy on this site that can point you to a study telling you assholes smell like roses, but in every instance, he leaves out the part of the study which doesn't benefit his argument, lying by omission and trying to trick people into buying into his bullshit philosophy with his circumstantial evidence and usually completely made up studies). So, if I can't use logic to back up my opinion, I'll point to XYZ study I heard of which may or may not exist, and which probably fell under some improper assumptions if it did exist, so no, I don't believe studies and statistics. They are used improperly most of the time, and they are NOT evidence, nor shall they ever be evidence. They are anecdotal at best, and completely fake at worst. If you want to argue a point, argue it, don't bullshit me with moot and improperly selected, unprovable statistics. In fact, "studies" aren't anywhere nearly as valid as lies, damn lies, or statistics, which says a lot about their meaninglessness. According to a 2010 US study by Zenfoldor, studies are bullshit 90 percent of the time. However, that's completely irrelivant. I conceeded to you your point about piracy, because even though I KNOW it's wrong(imo), I don't really care, and hope that everyone just keeps on believing whatever study they recently read. This is not my point, I don't care. What I'M interested in is the entirity of my last post, which you completely failed to respond to. How come u ain't respond to that 1 bro? ....as for me being a poor "argumenter" I think I actually won best "debater" on this forum last time we held a vote, but check me on that. |
So the studies done by governments and anti-piracy groups, which paint piracy in a non-negative light are always half-assedly done. Yet your oh so worldly personal experience, observations and infallible logic, on which you base your argument of pirates being bad, are somehow less half-assed than the above enities' efforts?
As for your point about industry. I guess using your definitions we can also say that the grocery stores are also part of the video game industry, since they feed the developers and all. The farmers as well because they get the food which the stores buy which they use. In fact everyone is part of the video game industry by linkage.
First to get this out of the way, the people who pay for the making of a video game are a subset of the creators of a video game. I don't how you decided to not count them as part of the creators. An industry is the people or companies engaged in a particular kind of commercial enterprise, language courtesy of google. As such, the industry is in fact just the creators of the video games ad it has its customers, which are us. Meanwhile Gamestop is part of the retailer industry and websites like these are part of the print/news industry. They just happen to be specialized in video games, but it does not make them part of the video game industry since they are in no way involved in the making. I hate to break it to you, and your so overinflated ego, but you are just a customer to an industry, not part of it. If you want to take offense, the go right ahead.
As for the whole used sales thing. I wan to stop you right here before you start using por analogies of cars or pants wor w/e other physical good you can think of, because games are digital and not physical goods. That's a very big difference. When Gamestop sells you the used game, it's nothing like buying a used car, you have to think of digital goods. It's more along the lines of Gamestop going to the dealership, stealing the car, and then selling it to you for cheaper, but not by much, than the dealership.
Also, your last line is the most hilarious thing I have probably read on the internet to date. That's a huge achivement by the way. In a vote done in my WoW guild I was voted for the man with the biggest penis, so that means I have a big penis right? Someone really needs to call the doctor, cause the only solution to your overinflated epeen is drainage. Are you also sure you didn't win the "best argumenter that dismisses arguments that might invalidate him, and thinks he has infallible logic" award?
