EU Commission Says Piracy Increases Legitimate Game Sales

[DonFerrari]

Puppyroach said:
Not strange at all and I have read other studies that came to the same conclusion. Those that pirate games are often those who have the biggest interest in the industry and therefore are more prone to buying new games.

Yes totally comprobatory that someone that pirates 100 games end up buying 30 of those games while the other customers buy only 20....

And this wasn't a study, it was at most a survey looking at OP. from around 1600 people surveyed enough said they buy more after pirating and have a positive effect on sales.

I'm pretty sure that EU commission understand that piracing increases revenue for companies but companies are to dumb to want money.

Have you also saw the part that the benefit came most for companies that had other monetization. So basically they are saying for companies to have even more DLC, multiplayer and games as service?? The very thing a lot of gamers doesn't want.

archer9234 said:

DonFerrari said:

So if companies would allow piracy to be easier you are sure they would profit more?

About digital version, In Brazil a lot of BDs I bought came with free digital version, I never once used them.

Who said piracy. We have the right to rip and copy CD's in iTunes, at will, for example. Why isn't this a normal thing towards DVD's, BD's, 4k Discs.

I don't use those version either. I want full control over bitrate, place where I want to use them, format, audio tracks, chapter markers etc. Which is why I rip all my BD's to my itunes. I have thousands of shows and movies on my itunes. All purchased leagally. But I'd be consider a pirate. Beacuse I bypassed copy protection guards to do it. Even though I don't share those files. And had people watch Daredevil in an unconvential way. IE: Public proformance. Again, technially illgeal. But they bought their copies. So... I'm not saying companies stop giving a shit and not protect their stuff. But, not everything falls under black and white.

Depends on the law or how you interpret rights... I have nothing against you ripping your CD and puting it in your iTunes. You as customer can go there and demand Apple to allow it.

Under Brazil law you wouldn't be considered pirate, backup copy is fair use here. But yes the "public performance" could be an issue on this, but if everyone was owner of a license I don't see that being a problem as well under the law.

But we know that most of the backups would be sucked in by heavy pirates.

Ka-pi96 said:

Leadified said:

Screwing over your customers is not a good way to convince them to buy your stuff. I'm not sure why you're being so vindictive over this, major companies have already been doing regional pricing for years now.

So major companies have been doing anti-consumer shit for years, that's no reason for them to continue doing it though!

Screw regional prices and screw region locks!

Sure making region free games and them making the price be 1/3 in some regions won't make a lot of importers go there.