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

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killerbeed said:
I've heard it argued that piracy is a matter of service as opposed to price, do any of you feel this way? For I've seen evidence to the contradictory such as when shows like breaking bad became one of the most pirated shows in history despite the entire series being available on netflix.

To a degree yea but I think its a little bit of both. Like for example, I love game of thrones but in order for me to watch it the "standard" method, I have to pay $60 to get the standard cable and then an additional $25 for HBO which is crazy cause that is only for TV and just to watch one show that I care about, I have to pay that much per month! Like there is no "Only HBO" option at all.

And another case is like how stuff from Netflix US isn't avaliable in say Netflix Canada so I have to either use a proxy or vpn if I want to watch the superior version of netflix so I do think that it is a little bit of both cause when you are going up again "piracy" which is essentially free, you have to battle it with convinence + low pricing imo.

Gaming has a similar issue, at least on the PC front cause I really don't like dealing with Origin and specially Uplay so more often than not, I try to avoid buying games that have those types of DRM. But at the sametime, most of the games are still on steam so I think then it comes a pricing + value issue for a lot of people since games are pretty expensive for many although I personally think its fine. Many people also just don't care regardless so there is that too. But yea who knows for games but for movies/tv shows, service is certainly a big part of the issue.