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Nintendo lost out on future game and console sales from that person.

filleduchaos 3y ago
Can you really claim to be a future customer of a product when you can get and are getting the value the product provides without having to pay for it? It's funny to me how every time the topic of piracy comes up, the world suddenly becomes so full of people who totally like giving companies money out of the sheer goodness of their hearts. And then by next week when it's time for another post about how open source maintainers get burnt out from a lack of material support, we all suddenly remember how human nature actually works.
- MyFedora 3y ago
  Yep. My last Steam purchases include Cities: Skylines, Graveyard Keeper, Mini Metro, etc. All games I bought after I pirated and played them for a few hours. If I can't pirate a game, then I won't buy the game. Exceptions include games with a proper demo, like The Stanley Parable, or games that're love on first sight, like Lethal Company.
- michaelmrose 3y ago
  I have 112 paid PC games in my steam library and over the years I've owned 6 consoles as well as building or buying many gaming computers. I'm definitely in the market for games and machines to play them.
favorited 3y ago
They didn't lose out on any of those things – at worst, they lost the potential that someone who recently played their game without paying for the hardware or software would pay next time. "This game was so great that I would consider paying next time, but I'm definitely not going to pay this time" doesn't seem, to me, like a credulous position.
- MyFedora 3y ago
  We're talking about Nintendo. They literally don't sell their older games and consoles. Your only options are the (sometimes severely overpriced) 2nd hand market and piracy.
  - favorited 3y ago
    That might be relevant if we were talking about someone wanting to play the Nintendo DS port of Chrono Trigger. But we're talking about Breath of the Wild & the Switch, which are in stock at every store that sells video games.

Can you really claim to be a future customer of a product when you can get and are getting the value the product provides without having to pay for it? It's funny to me how every time the topic of piracy comes up, the world suddenly becomes so full of people who totally like giving companies money out of the sheer goodness of their hearts. And then by next week when it's time for another post about how open source maintainers get burnt out from a lack of material support, we all suddenly remember how human nature actually works.

MyFedora 3y ago
Yep. My last Steam purchases include Cities: Skylines, Graveyard Keeper, Mini Metro, etc. All games I bought after I pirated and played them for a few hours. If I can't pirate a game, then I won't buy the game. Exceptions include games with a proper demo, like The Stanley Parable, or games that're love on first sight, like Lethal Company.
michaelmrose 3y ago
I have 112 paid PC games in my steam library and over the years I've owned 6 consoles as well as building or buying many gaming computers. I'm definitely in the market for games and machines to play them.

favorited 3y ago

They didn't lose out on any of those things – at worst, they lost the potential that someone who recently played their game without paying for the hardware or software would pay next time. "This game was so great that I would consider paying next time, but I'm definitely not going to pay this time" doesn't seem, to me, like a credulous position.

MyFedora 3y ago
We're talking about Nintendo. They literally don't sell their older games and consoles. Your only options are the (sometimes severely overpriced) 2nd hand market and piracy.
- favorited 3y ago
  That might be relevant if we were talking about someone wanting to play the Nintendo DS port of Chrono Trigger. But we're talking about Breath of the Wild & the Switch, which are in stock at every store that sells video games.