• Vodulas [they/them]@beehaw.org
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    19 days ago

    People that would not buy the game that will pirate it once it is cracked vs people that could not wait and just bought instead of pirating it. The people that would wait until it is cracked would pirate it immediately if it was cracked before the 3 months but will also wait to pirate it if it is not cracked in that 3 months.

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        19 days ago

        No, you said:

        I guess that puts to rest the “I wasn’t going to buy that game anyway…” nonsense.

        My point is that there are still people that were never going to buy the game outside that 20% of lost revenue.

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            19 days ago

            Sure, but it doesn’t blow the statement out of the water. You would have to find out how many times a game was pirated, then compare that to the extra copies sold that make up that 20%. Plus, not everyone who pirates games says that.