A certain percentage do, although it's hard to know what the percentage is. But it's also not true that no instance of piracy results in a lost sale. It's true that not every instance of piracy results in a lost sale. If they're an idiot who thinks it's funny to disappear my Dentist Loot in the Golden Grin Casino? There is not enough nope in the world. If someone doesn't have the cash or just wants to try it out, I respect that. Are they worse than cheating? Not at all. I wouldn't want to play with someone who uses them. You get a good idea of what you would be buying, but you can't fully enjoy it until you pay up.Īre DLC unlockers bad? Eh, a little bit. They realize that pirating a game is like downloading a demo. Why? I will tell you exactly why - piracy. These days? Hardly any game company cares enough to make a demo. You could just buy a computer magazine and it would usually have a CD with a bunch of demos on it. You could just go on any download page, and get a demo for a recent game. And, to throw a number out there, 95% of legitimate players won't bother to disable it, so you are severely limited.īack in the late 90s/early 2000s, demos were everywhere. And you won't be able to join any lobbies with anticheat enabled, because it'll kick you. And this is why piracy is inherently inferior - in the case of Payday 2, everyone will know you used a DLC unlocker, because the game knows.

Online interactions are usually impossible to pirate. It's never a perfect copy - at least not with recent games. I still got my car, and I don't really care much. Well, if someone walked over to my car, used a PiracyScanner TM and made a copy of it and drove off. I'm sure you're all familiar with the phrase, 'You wouldn't download a car'. Whether or not they pirate has no monetary influence whatsoever. In case 3, the poor bugger won't have the money anyway, so no harm done - he did not cause them any loss, and he is unable to cause them any gain. In cases 1&2, it's likely that the company will still get money, if their product is liked enough by those who pirate it. Wants to try the product out but there is no demo availableĭoesn't have the money right now but might buy it in the futureĭoesn't have the money and has more important things to buy

But most of the time, piracy is either because someone If someone pirates just because he thinks piracy is great, but he actually had the 10 bucks to spare: yes, in this very specific case, the company just lost 10 bucks. They did not 'cost' the company 10 bucks, they just made a copy of what the company already made.

If someone pirates something - they just created a new copy. How companies say that this thing they made costs 10 bucks, it got pirated 1000 times, so they lost 10000 bucks. I love how some people actually seem to think that piracy = stealing.

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