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Yeah. To be fair. The people who pirate were likely never going to buy it in the first place. Like FIFA games. I've never bought one even though Ive been playi

Yeah. To be fair. The people who pirate were likely never going to buy it in the first place. Like FIFA games. I've never bought one even though Ive been playing for years. But I grew up with no money to buy them amd when I did have the money, the game was all about microtransactions. So its still a no.

freeflight 5y ago
> Yeah. To be fair. The people who pirate were likely never going to buy it in the first place. That's a tad bit too simplified. There have by now been several studies/reports [0] [1] that found people pirating a certain media, are also spending most of their disposable income on said media. Sure, there's also the "I don't want to waste my money on possible garbage" curiosity/test-drive piracy. But a very large chunk are just people who enjoy the medium so much that they can't get enough of it. So they will spend all their monthly disposable income on it, and when that's gone, they will pirate because of the FOMO created by marketing hype around the newest release getting thrown at them. It's very much a manifestation of the consumerism that gets glorified in most modern societies. [0] https://torrentfreak.com/0-more-on-content-than-honest-consumers-130510/ https://torrentfreak.com/0-more-on-content-than-honest-consu... [1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/evkmz7/study-again-shows-pirates-tend-to-be-the-biggest-buyers-of-legal-content https://www.vice.com/en/article/evkmz7/study-again-shows-pir...
- CRConrad 5y ago
  > That's a tad bit too simplified. Pet peeve: "tad bit". A tad is a bit, so either "that's a tad too simplified" or "that's a bit too simplified", but not both. Sorry, it's just... That stuff like this bothers the shit out of me.
lesquivemeau 5y ago
Well, it seems everybody is different. Personally I bought a lot of games I pirated when I was younger and I'm glad because I wouldn't have bought them in the first place If I hadn't the option of trying it beforehand

freeflight 5y ago

> Yeah. To be fair. The people who pirate were likely never going to buy it in the first place. That's a tad bit too simplified. There have by now been several studies/reports [0] [1] that found people pirating a certain media, are also spending most of their disposable income on said media. Sure, there's also the "I don't want to waste my money on possible garbage" curiosity/test-drive piracy. But a very large chunk are just people who enjoy the medium so much that they can't get enough of it. So they will spend all their monthly disposable income on it, and when that's gone, they will pirate because of the FOMO created by marketing hype around the newest release getting thrown at them. It's very much a manifestation of the consumerism that gets glorified in most modern societies. [0] https://torrentfreak.com/0-more-on-content-than-honest-consumers-130510/ https://torrentfreak.com/0-more-on-content-than-honest-consu... [1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/evkmz7/study-again-shows-pirates-tend-to-be-the-biggest-buyers-of-legal-content https://www.vice.com/en/article/evkmz7/study-again-shows-pir...

CRConrad 5y ago
> That's a tad bit too simplified. Pet peeve: "tad bit". A tad is a bit, so either "that's a tad too simplified" or "that's a bit too simplified", but not both. Sorry, it's just... That stuff like this bothers the shit out of me.

lesquivemeau 5y ago

Well, it seems everybody is different. Personally I bought a lot of games I pirated when I was younger and I'm glad because I wouldn't have bought them in the first place If I hadn't the option of trying it beforehand