Cause of Piracy Study (and a lil bit of effect)

[mchaza]

Hephaestos said:

mchaza said:

true true, but that depends on the items. You talk to your friends about how you spent 30,000 on an new car or 2000 on an new TV to display how rich you are over them but you dont do that for the 30 dollar movie you bought. Trust me when my parents who are technologically backwards start asking my older brother to download movies. An yes saving all your pennies to buy that game is makes you enjoy that game more but doesn't mean people dont want get it for free. 

With over 1000 posts I assume you do visit the forums here.... Have you not ever seen people posting their collections?

People like showcasing their collection of movies, games, manga... even if not to others, then to themselves. It doesn't matter the price of the item, it's the completeness of the collection that counts in this case... but you don't start a collection of 2.000.000 cars on minimum wage... similarly, you won't do your collection of all PS3 RPGs at full retail price, you'll wait for the garbage bin.... if that is low enough for you.

Personal example: my PC buying habits have gone from about 20 games a year before 2000, then I had broadband.... so 5-6 games a year.... then I had the lucky combination of dirt cheap UK prices and Steam sales... I got about 100 games last year, many i'm likely to never play. Price/demand.

Similarly, music is currently too expensive for me.... (then again I haven't listened to music in years anyways)

like the article said we are Loyal customers to our developers. Not all gamers, movie and music consumers are like this.