PC Port of Persona 5 Positively Improbable

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Michelasso said:

RenCutypoison said:

I'm not sure japanese pirate more than EUs.

Plus piracy is rarely a loss for the publishers and most of them are fully aware of it.

Piracy is rarely a loss? Are we going from an extreme to the other? Obviously the lost sales due to piracy are much lower than the total value in dollars of the games illegally downloaded. But sure it is also way above zero. If piracy was impossible I woldn't be surprised if at least a 20% of the pirated games turned into sales.

But piracy also has benefits, like making people play more, and play games they wouldn't have otherwise bought, thus having a marketing effect. Pirates are also a part of the word of mouth.