You don't really finish games in one or two sitting unless its like flappy bird.

Here it is $85 a month for unlimited (100mbps), cheapest is $33 a month 25GB cap 5mbps, next available tier is $65 a month, 100GB cap 30 mbps. It's $1.50 per extra GB used. (25 euros is about 37 CAD)

$1020 a year for unlimited use internet here. (before tax)

Currently I pay $57 a month (bought the modem, $8 a month for modem otherwise) for 270GB and 30 mbps (grandfather package). Still $684 a year, I would love a 20% discount on that for not pirating...

I don't like to mess around with pirate sites too much because of the high risk of viruses and malware.  Also, I rather support the companies that make the games I like with my money instead of stealing the game. Video game companies need the profits and money to make more games. I just hope that they figure out a way to stop the pirates without screwing the paying gamers over.  

It's like with anime, I could watch the majority of it on youtube but I rather watch it through services like crunchyroll so the companies get some money from it. 

Which, in the context of THIS article, is irrelevant.  10 Million is a far cry from 74.1 billion.  Fielding88 is spot on, in his assessment of my response.  My initial comments in this thread were that no actual link had ever been proven.  That does not mean it doesn't happen, hasn't happened, will never happen.  It just means, nobody's been able to do so in a believable fashion (and stand up to scrutiny), the reason why?  They'd have to interview every pirate, or at least enough of a sample size to make any kind of educated guess.

I can only speak from my own checkered past, in this regard, as can probably the vast majority of responders in this thread.  The basic facts are, when I was a kid and partook in such things, the option was either pirate, or don't play the game.  Period.  There was no alternative.  However, that's anecdotal, and obviously cannot be used as a blanket statement (much like the claim of 74.1 billion loss to the industry).

Ya'll can alter the argument as much as you want, but in sticking to the OP, it's a dumb and unlikely to be proven claim, by this company.  

You're right that $74.1 billion has nothing to do with that post. That was the problem. Nobody is denying that piracy affects sales, and nobody is arguing against that. The argument was that it's not measurable. We all agree on this (the proof is in how you can say 25 people, 400 people, or 1,240,000). The OP article, however, actually measured it by saying it costs the industry $74.1 billion. If anything, the post you're referring to missed the majority of the conversation, and perhaps the point of the article.

I'm not trying to raise any hackles here, nor do I feel the need to debate anything you just posted, but I just wanted to say that I concede to everything you've said.

*sigh* once again this argument is just specious and a way to justify the robbing of profits from hard workeing game developers. We should be able to adopt this model to every good and service then, right?

The ease of pirating digital goods/services is a counter to the legal purchase of said products. Look, if they had no interest in the games why would they bother pirating them, even though it can be risky business as many can contain viruses or other malware? Because, they desire the product plain and simple. Sure not every pirated copy would have resulted in a sale, but there is definitely a cdemand component that drove consumers to aqcuire the games either legitimately or by pirating them.

Why do console versions of games typically sell much better than the PC counter parts even if/when they have wrose graphics/ fewer features and are usually higher priced? Because, among a few other reasons, they are much harder to pirate and if you want to play games on the device you invested in you have to actually pay for them. PC owners who invest more money in their hardware can get around that limitation.

so where does the other 95% of the revenue go?

I undertand what you are saying however he wrote 5% OF THAT revenue. I am hoping he doesn't think there is 70bn lost in revenue were 95% goes to retailers, disturbutors etc and only 5% of that total revenue goes back to the gaming industry, because if that is the case I think everyone else is ripping of the gamng industry far more than a pirate.

I think you don't really understand what consitutes "gaming industry"