Quote from SenturaThrik man, you're forgetting that not everyone who would pirate a game would actually buy it if they had to spend money on it. there's a gap in the market between those who could become customers, but pirate instead, and those who wouldn't become customers if there was no pirating.
this is an interesting little myth. if you want something, then you buy it. if you can't afford it or don't really want it, then you don't buy it.
where piracy differs is that we can take it and never worry about buying.
it's very easy to look at the current situation and say "oh but those games, movies, albums, i wouldn't have bought those anyway" - but that's because you know how easy it was to pirate them. if piracy did not exist, or was vastly more inconvenient then things would be a lot different.
as it stands it's impossible for you to say 100% that pirates would not have bought the game. and while there's people that say they wouldn't have bought it anyway, there's also a lot of shit talking faggots out there.
this is not even a debate, i don't really want to read your reply. thanks. o/