Piracy only hurt bad or mediocre games?

[Shoestar]

KylieDog said:

Shoestar said:

KylieDog said:

Comparing movie piracy to game piracy is bad.

 

A lot of movie piracy is streamed, perhaps more than torrented even.  If the film ends up being good the person who streamed it may go buy it.  There is no streaming version of video game piracy thus if a game is good the pirate will just keep it in most cases.

 

Piracy hurts all games, though the ones who feel the biggest blow are the games expected to only sell small numbers in the first place which could be through no real negative reasons as far as good/bad is concerned, it could be an unpopular genre for example but still a great game.

You're not seeing the point there... Agreed movies can be streamed and games can't but how this is similar a situation is in the fact that most pirated games are hard if not impossible to play online, at least not in the way legit users are able to. If the person say.... downloads starcraft 2 and finds the game to be amazing but can't play online... then he might be willing to buy the game to do that.

Same goes with consoles... If someone downloads MW2 just to try it out solo and finds the game to be amazing... he won't risk getting is xbox live account banned and will buy a good version to play the game online.

 

I don't know what you're talking about, its easy to play pirated games online in nearly all cases.  The people who get caught on XBL and such are the idiots who play the game weeks before it releases.

I know a great many people who had their accounts banned because they played pirated versions of games on their machines "after" it was released.