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Quoth The Raven; pc games <pcgame...@yahoo.com> in
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> We know PIRATES are extremely damaging for PC Games cause they steal
> PC Games and by doing that reduce the so needed income developers need
> to stay in business and create more games.
> But are pirates the only ones that reduce sales and reduce income of
> developers?
>
> Let me give you 3 example of "fictional" PC Gamers called "John",
> "James" and "Jim"
>
> "John" story
> John enjoys very much PC Games, he buys them all, one day a friend of
> his asked him to lend him a game he has cause he enjoyed very much the
> demo and he accepted it.
> By lending his game to a friend "John" reduced that games sale by one
> unit cause his friend should have instead bought his own unit
>
> "James" story
> James enjoys very much PC Games, he buys them all, but one day he
> decided to try out the 2nd hand market in one of his games in which he
> already made a backup for himself, so he sold one of his games in the
> used 2nd hand market to another PC Gamer
> By selling in the used 2nd hand "James" reduced that games sale by one
> unit cause the buyer should have instead bought it new
>
> "Jim" story
> Jim enjoys very much PC Games, but he decided that he would steal
> instead of buying PC Games, so he downloaded from an illegal site a
> commercial game
> By downloading an illegal copy "Jim" reduced that games sale by one
> unit cause the should have instead bought it
>
> Its clear the only pirate among the 3 is Jim, but at the end who did
> reduce sales for PC Games? All 3
> So what I'm trying to say is not only pirates reduce sales
> And don't forget the big problem in PC Games is exactly declining
> sales
> Using the used 2nd hand market and lending PC Games can be as damaging
> as piracy
> In practice even if "John" and "James" don't pirate they are reducing
> sales as much as "Jim" the pirate is
> So please next time you intend to use the Used 2nd hand market or lend
> a game to a friend think twice, think about PC Games declining and
> every sale unit counting
> Thanks and PC Games will appreciate

again, and why am I wasting time on you, I must say that while in all 3 of 
your situations the company never received a dime, but I say they would 
never have received a dime anyway.

situation 1; they demo'd the game. maybe the friend next game will purchase 
it, however the company already received one sale for one unit.
situation 2; 2nd hand market... are you an idiot? the company already 
received one payment for one unit when it initially sold.
situation 3; if the guy was poor in the first place he would never have paid 
for it ever, so downloading still didn't detract a sale.

and you might have added the real culprit to game sales loss;
situation 4; mass copiers producing illegal copies of a game and selling 
them cheap on local markets and car boot sales.


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