His not realistic and everyone who uses the same argument is also not realistic. If someone had the choice between a free game and a $60 game with a few extras, the free game will always win out. His Minecraft point is also stupid, if a pirate recommends Minecraft to his friends, then his friends will also pirate the game, because they recognise that as an option and will take advantage of it. Pirates are already missing out on retail game features like online play, DLC and the ability to use any console network features (this part obviously doesn't apply to PC).
His point about only ever having lost 'potential revenue' when someone pirates a game is also flawed because a single sale isn't what's hurting developers it's the increase of potentially lost revenue. More and more people are being introduced to the Internet every day and even more people are starting to take notice of all the illegal options that the Internet provides, which leads to more people learning how to pirate movies, music, e-books, games etc. Only a few years ago, people relied on shifty tech nerds to support their pirating needs by selling cheap DVD's from their basements for $5 each, these days a 10 year old can go to any torrent site and just download every newly released cinema movie without breaking a sweat.
Pirates don't have some noble justification as to why they pirate games, they just do it because it's free, it's easy and they can get away with it.
Bet with Conegamer and AussieGecko that the PS3 will have more exclusives in 2011 than the Wii or 360... or something.
