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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 589 Level 64.55 Mar 2006 
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Small games companies usually do a fixed sum deal with the distributor, meaning they get the same amount of cash whether they sell one copy or one hundred thousand. The risk is essentially passed on to the distributor but at the same time, if it sells amazingly the developers don't get so much. With XBLA and PSN, there's a fixed fee up front and then a cut of sales on top of that. At least, that's how it works with the two small developers we work with. Bigger players of course will do deals based on sales but then the sales figures of a new GTA game are rather more certain than those of an idny XBLA title.
Personally I avoid pirating games for consoles, mainly because it's often quite hard work. I normally buy second hand though and have no moral problem with it. Jam it back in, in the dark.   |
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