EU Commission Says Piracy Increases Legitimate Game Sales

[DonFerrari]

setsunatenshi said:

DonFerrari said:

There may be some cases of 50% disparity in prices sure, even more when the launch isn't aligned. Yet you were the one claiming that you are sure that selling for 20 would have more profit than selling for 60. So if the companies aren't doing that they are dumb. Thus I still require you to show your evidence that proves that it would be better to sell for 20 and also that it would sell 10x more and that selling 10x more it would profit more considering all involved costs.

1) Still doesn't make the majority child, where is the statisc to prove your claim

2) Nope you are wrong. You could try and spin a relation between paying customer vs pirates on developed and underdeveloped to say that in percentage there are more pirates in Brazil than USA, but if you look at raw number USA have more pirates.

@ bold: stop putting words in my mouth, you've been corrected about more than once now, it's completely absurd. you're either doing it on purpose or you're lacking the understanding skills in english to know better.

it was a thought experiment, inductive reasoning if you will, which depends on certain assumptions being strong enough (lower price = increased number of sales). the proof this already happens is the price disparity that exists nowadays on the specific markets i provided as example. the main point was the following; there is a specific price that will maximize profits on a given market, and this price is different depending on the specific market being considered

1) There are several studies conducted over the years that tackle different aspects of this question, so let's put up a few:

http://www.dailytech.com/Nearly+Half+of+Americans+Pirate+Casually+But+Pirates+Purchase+More+Legal+Content/article29702.htm

Another one...

http://www.pcgamer.com/pc-piracy-survey-results-35-percent-of-pc-gamers-pirate/  

"This chart shows the percentage of people who pirate within each age range. As you might expect, younger respondents were the most likely to pirate, with that likelihood decreasing about five percent per age group between 16-20 and 51-60. More than 40 percent of teenagers said they currently pirate games, while less than 15 percent of 51-60 year olds said the same."  

2)

https://www.go-gulf.com/blog/online-piracy/

US is not even in the top 10. Now was there really a need for me to find these? I'm pretty sure 2 minutes on google would have gotten you the same results.

Your move now.

PS: I sure hope you've never watched online pr0n without paying you dirty pirate you :)

Nope you hadn't proved yourself before; and of course there is specific prices per market that maximize profit. Considering companies do their studies right then the price is about what they are doing, so it still isn't 20 USD that you claimed. I know full well of demand elasticity, still none of what you said corroborate that going 1/3 the price makes the sell of the vg games increase 10 fold, and also considering royalties, taxes and other costs that this would ensure more PROFIT.

1) This point already put USA ahead of most developing countries on pirate amount. And we were talking about gaming piracy not general piracy, so unless you want to deny the OP itself that show difference in piracy effect between media you may as well. And as far as I remember 18-29 years isn't child. And considering that childhood goes up to 12 or less, and you said Childs is the bulky of pirates the study also deny you considering that the sum of all adults pirating is bigger than the child.

2) I said to you RAW numbers not percentage. 50% of american doing piracy puts it at over 150M pirates (which is 75% of Brazil population, and we have less internet user than you have pirates), also most servers and providers of content are also on developed countries per your own numbers.

You say I lack english understand, but you seem to lack interpretation.