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

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mornelithe said:

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

LuckyTrouble said:
*sigh* Once again: piracy does not equal lost sales. Every person that pirates did not intend to buy. The vast, vast majority of them would never spend their money on the game, for one reason or another.

Demand for a product and demand for a paid product are two very different things.

Exactly

Yes like most things the media does this is a sensationalist article. But you guys are also both wrong. 

Yes, every pirated game does not equal a sale but you also cannot generalize and say does pirating would never have paid for the game. I feel its obvious. The industry stands to make at least 10% more yearly than they are right now without piracy.