EU Commission Says Piracy Increases Legitimate Game Sales

[Nautilus]

Aeolus451 said:

Nautilus said:

Of course they work like that.But sometimes its not just crystal clear.Sometimes companies do what Leadified said.As long as the operation is profitable and they see a potential of expanding the market for its products and brand(and this is very important, since if the quantity doesnt justify earning less per unit, they obviously wont do that) they will do that.They wont just leave the money on the table.

Or if the company is worried that the price drop would damage the brand(because it would stop being seen as a luxury and tha could impact the product image) they usually "create" or buy other companies to create products for these poorer countries, which would basically be the same(with maybe a bit less quality) but with the price being much lower(or higher, depending on where you want to sell), and thus would create a new market for that said company(or Group, in this case) to sell their products and rack in more cash.One such example is Ambev.

The problem with this line of thinking is that no business wants to be just well.It wants to be the best it can be.Its a bussiness, it wants to maximize profits.Like I said in the first post, it doesnt care about your personal feeling on the topic and if you are paying more.As long as the games are priced just right, enough that you feel that the price is justified, they will charge as high as they can get.If you really have a problem with that, vote with your wallet.And the regular customers wouldnt be pissed because most of them have zero idea of whats happening outside their country, especially with regards to price of things of luxury such as videogames.And specially in wealthy countries.And FYI, this has been done since the dawn of times.Merchants always charged more on regions were people could pay more.If the practice has been going on for so long, its because it works.

And you clearly dont understand how socialism and capitalism work.

Countries have different tax rates and companies don't decrease the base price whatsoever to offset the high taxes/fees of some countries compared to others. Why would they decrease their prices for the reasons that you're talking about if they won't even do it for taxes? It's because it affects their profits if they sell below a certain price point at a certain period of time.  

Poor countries are poor. They don't have money to dick around with these kind of luxuries and companies know it. If a person in those countries can afford a luxury, they'll pay the regular price for it. If they can't then oh well. It's that simple.

 

Thats why I said that companies only do it(lowering price in the hopes of making profit off of sheer numbers sold) if there is the potential.If the estimates they do check out and so on.If there is no evidence suggesting that such practice will pay off, and they are better off leaving the original price at it is, they will do it.Its a matter of analysing the market and deciding based off of that.

And you need to remember that there are poor countries and there are poorer countries.Just because you are poor doesnt mean you cant afford a bit of luxury.Plus there are countries that are not that poor but simply prefer to spend their money elsewhere, other than gaming.(Like China with console gaming).If you manage to create a strategy to make the buying customs of said country to change, you are bound to rake in big loads of cash, and sometimes thats worth the risk(with one such strategy being lowering the price of games in general).

Its all a matter of perspective.And you really need to get off that idea of your that poor countries have only enough money for essential things and a few extras on the side.Poor countries are obviously poorer than richer countries, but they are not nearly as poor as you think.