SvennoJ said:
Safiir said:
I cannot emphasize this strongly enough. People really need to get this through their heads - there's almost no piracy on PC because of Steam. Sure, most games are still released on torrent trackers but that's true for ps4 and xboxone games as well, even though neither of the two consoles is still cracked open. People just don't bother with them. It's vastly more convenient just to wait for a sale on Steam, or heck even use a dubious site like g2a. Not to mention all the bundles like humble bundle.
Lower prices and easy access allowed people that don't have a lot of money and could not afford to pay for the game to be able to buy those games at a later date. And that's all most people that pirated games wanted. There was really nothing nefarious about pirating in the past. It was mainly people that couldn't afford paying full price (read people in less developed countries).
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So piracy has driven PC games prices down to the point most AAA games need console versions to stay alive?
Btw, there's almost no piracy on PC?
http://www.pcgamer.com/the-state-of-pc-piracy-in-2016/
2.5 billion game downloads on bitTorrents in 2014 by about 400 million unique users, mostly in the US, Brazil and UK.
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Riiiight...that's why there are so much more games ported to PC, because lower prices have killed profits. Come on! Steam is raking millions and every developer wants to release their game on steam. The prices ARE lower but this is more than compensated by the huge increase in people buying those games.
And torrent downloads are an incredibly flawed way of gauging piracy. What you should be looking it the amount of downloads through GOG, Steam, even Origin.
Take a look at Steam - https://www.statista.com/statistics/547025/steam-game-sales-revenue/
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