Video Game Piracy costs the industry as much as it makes!

[mornelithe]

Ka-pi96 said:

mornelithe said:

False narrative, there's really no guarantee that a pirated game, would've been a sale, if piracy weren't possible.

Well with the huge amount of it it's pretty much guaranteed that some of them would have been actual sales. Of course not all of them, but it would be next to impossible for none of them to translate in to sales if pirated copies weren't available.

How do you know?  How do you know it wouldn't be like things were before the internet was publicly available?  That's the problem, nobody can attach any kind of number to this theory, because it's impossible to verify.

Btw, I'm not saying you or Zhuge are ultimately wrong, I'm simply saying proof is required to support the assertion.  And to date, nobody has done so effectively.