EU Commission Says Piracy Increases Legitimate Game Sales

[vivster]

Vinther1991 said:

vivster said:

I wouldn't put too much value on any of the numbers. Especially music and movies live from merchandise. Though the problem of movies is inherent to the format. Out of all the entertainment mediums movies deliver the least amount of entertainment time so they have overall a very low value. Which means even people who can actually afford paying for it would just pirate if it's more convenient. Not much you can do about it other than going all in with merchandise.

What? Unless your movie is called The Lord of the Rings or The Avengers or the musician is called Justin Bieber or something, you have absolutely no chance to live from merchandising. How much merchandise do you think a movie like Moonlight sold?

I also don't agree that movies deliver the least amount of entertainment time, I think that is very individual from person to person.

Nobody said anything about making a living. In fact I didn't even say movies would make a loss. it's about increasing revenue.

A music album is listened to many times resulting in tens of hours of entertainment. Each book gives you several hours of reading time. We don't even have to be talking about video games.

An average movie has 90-120 minutes of entertainment. Unless it's a very good movie or you don't have any other hobbies a movie is watched a single time, maybe twice. Even if we're generous and say that every single movie is watched 3 times we come out at around 6h per movie. Every single music album, book or video game will top that. On average every other medium will give you more time out of a single product.

The only thing that gives you less value is a shorter movie.