| ▲ | andoando 4 hours ago |
| No they don't. I am tired of this feel good nonsense. I pirated games because it was free and I did not want to pay $60. Just make your games a donation model if you really believe this. Or lets put up a version of Steam where all the games are free cracked copies of the game and see how it affects sales. People pay precisely because they dont want to deal with the hassle pf pirating |
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| ▲ | stavros 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I can pirate games easily, but I buy them on Steam because it's more convenient. If it's too expensive for me, I just never play it (or wait for a deal). I can't be bothered dealing with the installers and the potential viruses and the hassle. |
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| ▲ | walletdrainer 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I’m fabulously wealthy and still mostly pirate things just because I can’t be bothered dealing with online credit card payments. Half the time I try to sign up for any of these services I get blocked for fraud because I’m in one country, my billing address in another and my bank in a third. Oh, and when something does work, it only works for a while until they lock the whole account with a bunch of paid content on it. | |
| ▲ | andoando 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | >because it's more convenient Yes, now imagine if we just removed the barrier to piracy completely. An easy to use client just like Steam, except all the games are free cracked copies. There is no way thats not going to drop sales. | | |
| ▲ | afiori 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | What has been proven many times is that people overwhelmingly choose the least effort/risk option. A free Steam full of certified pirates games with official games updates would obviously drop sales but this is moot as it will never exist. | | |
| ▲ | Tarball10 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Isn't that exactly what companies use as justification for DMCA and DRM protection? Without those, you'd have sites full of pirated game downloads easily found through search engines. DMCA takedowns force those sites into shady corners of the internet, making them harder to find and riskier for the average user. And (effective) DRM makes users have to wait for a crack which may take weeks or months. The result is that it's easier for the average person to just log into Steam/Epic/PSN/eShop and spend $60 to play immediately. |
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| ▲ | pfisch 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | You really can't though, not if the games have an online component or you want the game to be patched/updated as frequently as it would be on steam. Almost all games these days are basically like a work in progress, so if you pirate them then the game doesn't stay up to date. Pirating games is just really inconvenient compared to tv/movies/music. |
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| ▲ | afiori 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| If someone pirates 100 60$ games it does not mean that had piracy been impossible they would have spent 6000$ on those games |
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| ▲ | Tarball10 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | They might spend $600 on 10 of those games, though. It's not all-or-nothing. |
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| ▲ | nh23423fefe 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| thieves lie to protect their self-image. i pirated because free games let me spend my money on stuff i couldn't steal like food at the mall. i don't pirate anymore because i have a job now. |
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| ▲ | danielbln 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Copyright infringement is not stealing, and it's not a given that a sale would have happened at all - even if the llicit copy was unavailable. |
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