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Quoth The Raven; Flo 'Irian' Schaetz <ir...@gmx.de> in
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> And thus spoke pc games...
>
>> 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.
>
> That's not automatically true. First you will have to prove, that
> every pirate would buy the game if he didn't have a chance to steal
> it.
>
>> But are pirates the only ones that reduce sales and reduce income of
>> developers?
>
> <snip>
>
> Sorry, but if you really believe it, you will have to buy EVERY GAME
> that exists. And every car. And every magazine. Otherwise you damage
> the gaming industry / car industry / the press. If your point was
> right, every person who doesn't own a computer would damages the
> gaming industry. But that's nonsense.
>
> Luckily it's NOT the job of the gamer to maximize the profit of game
> designers. That's the job of marketing experts. If the only way to
> make a profit would be to make reselling or lending out games illegal,
> they're doing something wrong.
>
> Flo

I have to ask, as you say it isn't the developers business to sell copies, 
but to produce a game. do the developers get paid for every game printed, 
regardless if every copy sells? and don't the distributors get paid for 
every copy put on shelves, regardless of if every copy on the shelf don't 
sell?

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