Aeolus451 said:
All of the pirates say that even though the companies who produce the content lose more sales to pirating than they gain from it. |
and you pull that knowledge from which body orifice exactly?
at least present a counter argument to my point, not a supposed factual statement without any justification for it.
in an unsofisticated view of reality a person that pirates 100 games and ends up buying 20 of those, for you is a net loss for the industry. so in your mind, this person "would" have bought actually 100 games, thus representing a net loss of 80 games.
now if you use your brain a little, perhaps you would realize that said person might have a specific budget that can only afford those 20 games, and if no other option would be available only would buy those 20 games. actually, having no way to try out several games before buying, they might just end up playing it safe and only buy the sequels for ips they already know won't disappoint them, never even giving a chance on a new type of game they may or may not end up liking. instead of those 20 games
this is just one example of how the human mind works and exactly why this bullshit of 1 pirated copy = 1 loss sale is just flat out wrong.
another example would be little Timmy, with a very limited budget (maybe can afford 2 or 3 games a year + whatever they get for birthday). if he ends up downloading 100 different games, how are these exactly lost sales? they aren't. how may it benefit the industry that he got to play all these games? well, in a few years little Timmy will have a little job and plenty of disposable income. he grew up a gamer, so chances are he will still be a gamer after his 20's. all those games he couldn't afford from being a kid, he can indulge now and buy all the stuff he always wanted but never was able to. He might end up in a nostalgia trip buying remakes and remasters of the old classics from his youth.
i think this should be enough to get my point across
