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SvennoJ said:

So piracy has driven PC games prices down to the point most AAA games need console versions to stay alive?
Music is shit nowadays so not a good example either ;) Napster -> iTunes killed the well constructed album. Those are rare nowadays.
And I'm living proof of how false that last statement is.

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.

Yes, individual songs have increased in sales rates and Albums have decreased, but general music revenues are up since iTunes and Music streaming services gained a foothold. And that's at the expense of piracy.
I remember the mid-90's how prevelent music piracy was, even before the internet was invented.
http://www.rockitboy.com/blogs/music-industry-sales-piracy-and-illegal-downloads-better-or-same/

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2014 was a long time ago in PC terms.
That article also mentioned Ubisoft who used bullshit claims like "93% of PC gamers are pirates". - Let that sink in.
Asassins Creed sold over 0.91 million copies on PC (According to VG Chartz). - That means 11+ million copies on PC? That doesn't include digital either.

Or Ubisoft's Far Cry with it's 2.5 million copies sold on PC would mean it would have shifted 32.5+ million copies if Pirates didn't exist. Ain't happening sweetheart.

PC Digital sales accounted for 23% of Ubisoft's revenues in the first financial quarter of 2015/2016 where as the PS4 was 27% and the Xbox One was 11%.
http://www.pcgamer.com/the-pc-accounts-for-nearly-a-quarter-of-ubisofts-first-quarter-sales/

PC gaming is growing and growing, to over 35.8 Billion dollars... And it still isn't stopping. Clearly piracy isn't an issue.
http://hothardware.com/news/pc-gaming-six-times-more-revenue-than-consoles-in-2016

Now of course if you look at the 2014 statistics you provided, the sample rate was extremely small, it only included the top 100 games so it was never going to be accurate by any measure anyway.



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