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trust me, if an indie developper manages to get a millions downloads on their first game, they will NOT be bankrupt.
Dude, your logic is fucked up. If we suppose there are 1 million pirates. Those 1 million people would maybe all download the newest blockbuster. But why should they all download the unknown game by some unknown developer? And even if they do, why do you suddenly suppose that they would have bought it if they hadn't had the chance to download it? That doesn't make any sense."That's one point I never understood. How does piracy hurt small developers worse than big ones? Please explain!"
I already explained. Look, small devs, when they make a game, it's their first "big" project, so when it fails, the company might go bankrupt, but with a bigger, established company like Square-Enix, it doesn't hurt them at all, they already got an income large enough. So if 1 million people pirate the Squenix games, it's a 10% loss of income (kinda extreme, just taking these situations as an example), but if the same pirates, the same 1 million people, also pirate the game made by a smaller, independent developer, that's a loss of about 50% and they might just not make another game. It's has nothing to do with morals, they just don't have the money to come back. You should also know that each year, just 5-10 games actually make enough profit..
But I don´t think that most Spectrum games cost dozens of millions of dollars to make.
Ah I finally understand your point. You're saying that games produced by smaller games companies wouldn't have the hype to get enough people interested in buying them in the first place to make downloading them have a significant impact on sales.Dude, your logic is fucked up. If we suppose there are 1 million pirates. Those 1 million people would maybe all download the newest blockbuster. But why should they all download the unknown game by some unknown developer? And even if they do, why do you suddenly suppose that they would have bought it if they hadn't had the chance to download it? That doesn't make any sense.
But I don´t think that most Spectrum games cost dozens of millions of dollars to make.
Don't forget when the spectrum was out gaming was only in its infancy. I know the spectrum did quite well in the UK, I'm not sure about the rest of the world. New games are 4 times more or even 5 times more (If you buy them retail) than the spectrum game. Consoles are also released world wide which increases the games sales. It is quite funny thinking how much a spectrum game actually cost to make, considering how much they may cost these days. The cost of games is why theirs so little originality because it costs too much to make a game that won't sell.
Vast majority? It's only half of them. That's not a vast majority.
Blah, blah, blah.....
There's no *need* to spin that fact. Piracy and plagiarism and whatnot have always been around. Always will be around.
EDIT : don't be so aggressive, crygor, we're not on a fucking playground.
Vast majority? It's only half of them. That's not a vast majority.
Yawn. Your comments bore me.
Which option has the most votes?
That pretty much proves my point even if it not the "vast majority."
Again, you bore me.
Vast majority? It's only half of them. That's not a vast majority.
Yawn. Your comments bore me.
Which option has the most votes?
That pretty much proves my point even if it not the "vast majority."
Again, you bore me.
"Vast Majority" would be around the 80% mark, as it stands, its less than half.
The usual forum troll's response : "LALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU, I'M IMPERVIOUS TO LOGIC"
Just go back to gamefaqs, man.
The usual forum troll's response : "LALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU, I'M IMPERVIOUS TO LOGIC"
Just go back to gamefaqs, man.
Insults? That's very mature. Now how exactly am I trolling? Why don't you explain that to us all?
If you can find the right words.
My point is simple. Piracy does hurt game sales and the results of this poll proves my point.
Now am I against piracy? Hell no. You are looking at a guy who built a PC just to play EMUS on his living room TV. I just understand the truth. Piracy does hurt game sales whether we want to admit it or not. That's why I try to live with balance and buy the best games. I don't buy them all, but I'll give those special games my money. That's the best we can hope for in a situation like this.
Now, you were saying?
The usual forum troll's response : "LALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU, I'M IMPERVIOUS TO LOGIC"
Just go back to gamefaqs, man.
Insults? That's very mature. Now how exactly am I trolling? Why don't you explain that to us all?
If you can find the right words.
My point is simple. Piracy does hurt game sales and the results of this poll proves my point.
Now am I against piracy? Hell no. You are looking at a guy who built a PC just to play EMUS on his living room TV. I just understand the truth. Piracy does hurt game sales whether we want to admit it or not. That's why I try to live with balance and buy the best games. I don't buy them all, but I'll give those special games my money. That's the best we can hope for in a situation like this.
Now, you were saying?
Piracy hurts game sales as much as noy buying something you're not interested in hurts its sales.
Oh yeah, love that "japanese will line up for anything" comment in the pokémon thread. Borderline derogatory and racist, like a fine club a troll would wield.