Csimbi (09:49 PM CET - Dec,02 2014 ) Tom> Any game, I don't care what it is. If it's over $60 they can blow me. More people need attitudes like me, when they release games and nobody buys them, then they will lower prices. It's all greed. It's all very sad. Ditto. My limit is $10 though, $3 for older games.



lorcro2000> Between going to the movies or buying a game, people often choose the movie - and then pirate the game.

Obviously, because you will want to pay for experiencing the movie in a theater. Most likely you won't be going alone and you won't be going only to see the movie; there are a whole lot of other things that make up that experience.

There's no "experience" to pay for when it comes to games on a computer as most of the time you're alone in a dark room. You're just killing your free time. In the pre-digital distribution era, at least you had a nice box to touch, smell and show to your friend. You don't have any of that today. No memories to walk away with, nothing to talk about when you grow older.



lorcro2000> I've never believed that all "lost sales" from piracy exist; copying has always been about getting something you won't pay for, so who really loses?

There is a lost sale when you convert a customer into a potential customer. (A guy who used to buy games for $60 now buys games for $3 on the street. I should know, I bought hundreds of movies on Amazon. Later on, in China, on DVD; they were $1 each on the street while they were $15-25 on Amazon. I watched them and then I have thrown them away - and I bought only the good movies on Amazon.)



But. Let's pause here for a moment. You should consider who buys games. IMHO, it's mostly kids (below age 21) from their dads' money. As these kids grow older, daddy ceases to supply pocket money. The kid will have buy games from his own money. To do that, he needs to earn money. When he earns money, most likely, in the process, he will have learned how hard it is to earn his money. At that point, he won't be buying the games anymore. So what happens at that point? Well, some of these kids do turn pirates, yes. But the majority of these kids grows up and gives up gaming as a whole.