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The person with the job to fix a particular problem claims problem is super important. I'm sure you can imagine my surprise.

• evanelias 4y ago
  Piracy might not have been the cause of Dreamcast's demise, but it was definitely rampant on that system. Anecdotal but I knew someone with a binder full of pirated copies of literally every single Dreamcast game ever made, which isn't something I had ever encountered on any other console at the time (sometime around 2000 or early 2001?). My understanding is this wasn't particularly unusual for a resourceful Dreamcast owner with a broadband connection.
  • MetaWhirledPeas 4y ago
    The problem comes when one assumes someone with a binder full of pirated games would otherwise have a binder full of legitimate games. Pirating is likely their hobby. If they couldn't pirate Dreamcast games they would just pirate something else. What they likely wouldn't do is turn into a legitimate collector if pirating weren't an option. These people got into pirating because they were cheapskates. And Dreamcast game pirating, while it had a very visible scene, was not something a common user would do.
    • evanelias 4y ago
      It's not so cut and dry. Yes, there are some people who never pay for anything and only pirate something. But for most people it just depends on what's easily available. See e.g. movie and music streaming services being successful today, despite widespread piracy 20-25 years ago. In the case of Dreamcast pirates, while I'm sure they wouldn't pay for every game or even most games, many of these folks would very likely purchase some games, had pirated copies not been ridiculously easily available for free. In the specific case of the person I knew, he had purchased games for plenty of other consoles.