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| View Poll Results: Well? | |||
| I'm a Saint! I get everything new and I've never even heard of pirating! |
  
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0 | 0% |
| Buying used is definitely worse, you cheap bastard. |
  
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2 | 1.08% |
| Yargh! Pirating is worse because it's illegal and nobody gets any money! |
  
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4 | 2.15% |
| They're both equally bad, why is there even a poll? |
  
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5 | 2.69% |
| Fuck consumerism. |
  
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7 | 3.76% |
| This poll represents a broad misunderstanding of everything. |
  
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157 | 84.41% |
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11 | 5.91% |
| Voters: 186. You may not vote on this poll | |||
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 Member 33139 Level 17.22 Mar 2009 
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But I assume Rental companies still have to buy a certain number of the copies themselves (albeit at discounted prices).
I guess the only problem I have with pirating games (mostly new games) is like people have been saying here it creates an infinite number of unpaid for copies off of one while used and even rentals are finite and therefore some money is getting back to the developers. HOWEVER, the one variable I know nothing about and maybe someone here does is how distribution works in the video game industry. Since I don't know how much money is going to the developers from sales and how much is going to the distributor, I can't necessarily say that it's destroying them one way or the other. I would imagine though that it's much like the film industry. If people are pirating the films instead of seeing it in theaters...they're screwed in the long run. So maybe someone can tell me how it works in this industry? How ya doing, buddy? |
Member 33139 Level 17.22 Mar 2009
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So if I understand correctly pirating would still hurt these small developers long term if the distributors ran out of money to give them, correct? I understand that's an extreme scenario. And obviously the bigger the development house is the more money it takes to make a game so the more money they need on their return. I find this all pretty interesting. It would be interesting to look at some statistics of pirated copies of games in relation to sales figures but how that graph would be assembled I don't know.
But essentially (to bring my Captain Obvious rant full circle) from what Shin said, pirating hurts big developers more than small ones at the end of the day. At least it's not hurting small developers like I thought it would. And I agree, I have no problem with buying stuff used but I try not to pirate stuff unless I simply can't find it anywhere else. Plus, there's something about owning that box that's so satisfying. And for movies I'd never consider buying them used since almost always they are available in some form or another. How ya doing, buddy? |
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