| FaRmLaNd said: Well not really. Because if I sell my 1 game then thats only one game being sold to 1 person. If I put up a torrent and its essentially duplicated millions of times thats multiplying that copy many times. The end result of the action is different. There are further differences. We know that that one game was initially purchased. Thats not neccesarily so with pirated games, some do get leaked. However this is a minor quibble. The main difference I would say is that selling used games subsidises a huge number of retailer jobs whereas putting a torrent on a website will mostly not help employment. Essentially these sales do help the brick and mortar stores that do actually sell the new products aswell. So that money is injected back into the economy. The same goes for rental stores, who employ lots of people and also buy the games from the publisher initially. So whilst both actions aren't going to be seen as good by the developer theres no contest when it comes to the comparison between the two. Buying used and renting games are far better for the economy then pirating and more ethical. |
Someone give this guy a medal, or an avatar xD. Beautiful post.
