[ SECRET POST #2686 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2686 ⌋

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Comments

Re: You are full of shit on this one

[feotakahari]

There will always be people who buy games, because there will always be people who want to spend money to support the games they like. (Spore was pirated to hell and back, and it still sold two million copies in its first three weeks on the market.) If some of those people hear about your game because it was pirated by a friend of theirs who wouldn't have bought it anyway, that's a net gain. If someone pirates your game, then decides to buy it to support you (which is apparently surprisingly common), that's also a net gain. The only loss is if someone pirates your game with the intent of later buying it, then decides not to buy it because it sucks, in which case you should have made a better game.

Re: You are full of shit on this one

[(Anonymous)]

It is also a loss if someone who would have bought your game were piracy not an option pirates it instead, and then decides hey, why should I pay for this thing when I have a perfectly servicable copy right here for free?

Which is, incidentally, a hell of a lot more common than people actually pirating something to try it out and then buying it when they decide they like it.

It may be ultimately a negligible loss for large companies, but the same can't really be said of smaller developers or solo artists, who frequently charge a great deal less and still get their work pirated, generally by people who then bleat "but exposure!" when called on their shit.

("Exposure", incidentally, is also a scam used by large companies to rope emerging artists into working for them either gratis or for criminally low wages in return for the promise that someone, somewhere, will see their work and shouldn't that be enough for any artist. So congratulations on having a point of view in line with manipulative, money-grubbing assholes, I guess.)

Re: You are full of shit on this one

[feotakahari]

If it's gonna turn into a numbers argument, I can't do that, because I don't have numbers. I have anecdotes, like the survival of Kudos despite being pirated to hell and back, or the success of Hotline Miami despite the dev openly helping pirates acquire it for free, but I can't factually prove what effect piracy has on the average game's sales.