Anti-piracy measures will still fail, even if they actually stop piracy.

[mibuokami]

LordTheNightKnight said:

Icyedge said:

LordTheNightKnight said:

mibuokami said:

Perhaps but when the choice is pay or go without, they will pay, they will obviously be more selective but do you genuinely believe that if piracy is eliminated these people will simply stop playing games? Absurd.

If I implied that, I didn't mean to. I just meant that a rush of sales upon piracy elimination is as big a pipe dream as stopping piracy alltogether. It's far easier to just make a game that appeals to people willing to pay money.

I dont think there would be a rush of sales upon piracy elimination either. But, the game being good or bad doesnt change anything, piracy will still remove some sales, probably even more in the case of the good game.

Which is why I explicitly typed "games people are willing to pay money for" instead of "good", which brings up a lot of subjective arguments, and that someone will claim reviews are what decides makes a good game, even though this is about sales.

All a misunderstanding then. The first half of your op is a bit confusing and has many statement that can be taken out of context. Even taken in as a whole it seems to imply that piracy as it stands cannot hurt sales because the interested consumers have all been reached.