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

[mornelithe]

Ka-pi96 said:

mornelithe said:

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.

Before the internet was available there was still piracy so...

Besides, I'm merely saying that it is a statistical impossibility that none of those pirated games would have been legit sales if there were no way to pirate the game.

Ok, I'll give you the statistical impossibility, however, taken in context with the thread title, and the body of the threads message, I'm calling extreme and utter bullshit.  It's a HUGE stretch to go from 'statistical impossibility that none of those pirates games would have been legit sales' to Piracy costs the industry as much as it makes!!!!!  Make sense?

Also, what's the statistical probability that every single instance of piracy, is from someone who doesn't own the game? :)  Yep, it was downloaded, but it was also paid for.  There are obvious reasons to do this, and probably some that aren't obvious.  But, you can't say that number is 0, either.