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

[fielding88]

the-pi-guy said:

fielding88 said:

You're right that $74.1 billion has nothing to do with that post. That was the problem. Nobody is denying that piracy affects sales, and nobody is arguing against that. The argument was that it's not measurable. We all agree on this (the proof is in how you can say 25 people, 400 people, or 1,240,000). The OP article, however, actually measured it by saying it costs the industry $74.1 billion. If anything, the post you're referring to missed the majority of the conversation, and perhaps the point of the article. 

1.) not every post in this thread specifically has to do with the OP.  

For example, suppose the thread "Blue is the best color"

Someone posts "nah, green is".  

On the one hand, this post doesn't have anything to do with the color blue, it does have to do with what they think the best color is.  This is how most/all threads work.  Someone posts something, people give a different opinion, a different aspect that corresponds to the thread, but is perhaps in a slightly different direction than the OP entails.  

2.) 

In this very same way, the poster was pointing out a different aspect of the article.  Basically, no the $74.1 billion isn't actually how much it costs the industry, but if even 1 person pirates a game, when they would have bought it, they are negatively affecting the industry.  This is the point that the poster was trying to make.  

3.) 

This post certainly did not miss the point of the article or the conversation. 

I'm not trying to raise any hackles here, nor do I feel the need to debate anything you just posted, but I just wanted to say that I concede to everything you've said.