@lostrib said:
@Vatusus said:
@clyde46 said:
Console users buy used games. Just as bad.
Do you have numbers to compare the amount of games purchased in first and second hand? I really REALLY doubt is as bad as piracy. One is legal, the other isnt. PC gamers should stop comparing the two. Thats just reeks of desperation to counter argument
Well except a used game sale is provably a lost sale. A pirated copy is not necessarily a lost sale. and as the devs said earlier, piracy isn't hurting them. They don't find it to be a big issue
A used sale is a transferred sale, the person who bought it cannot play it anymore, there is a finite number of used games for sale and also protects against the game being impossible to find (because the new copies all sold, got discontinued, etc) it keeps the IP visible and relevant long after they stopped making it.
A pirated copy is a copy, everybody can play and keep making copies, the number of copies is infinite. DRM then is used to discourage piracy, which actually only discourage the customers, the pirates have the DRM-free version, the customers have the annoy-ware version, eventually the customer learns that if they want a clean copy of the game they can only get this thru piracy.
Lots of ppl use piracy as an unofficial demo and even after they pay for it, they'd rather have the cracked version because it doesn't give you store pop-ups and Uplay begware.
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