[QUOTE="Rocker6"][QUOTE="DontGetBigIdeas"] Every pirated copy is a potential sale that didn't happen...that isn't hard to understand.DontGetBigIdeas
Completely incorrect. Some pirates simply never had an intention of buying the game, and even if there was no way to pirate it, they'd simply skip on it. They're freeloaders, they refuse to pay, and they won't change...
Some pirates on the other hand may've had the intention of buying the game in the first place, but something they considered off-putting happened, so they pirated it. Those people are the problem, and that's when potential sales are lost...
I agree to an extent, but the simplistic way to look at it (which I took) is that if you had your game downloaded 500 times, but only 250 of those were paid downloads, you lost 250 sales. Now you can say that only 100 of those 250 pirated versions would have actually bought it, but the fact remains that 250 copies of the game earned you absolutely nothing. And that's what publishers are looking at, the bottom line.True, they earned you nothing, but chances are, making those people pay for the game is nearly impossible, as they simply don't want to do it...
Also, publishers often have a very wrong way of looking at piracy, instead of trying to give those people a reason to buy the game, they insist on alienating honest consumers with complicated DRM schemes which can often get in the way of the enjoyment...
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