Originally Posted by Halcyon

Someone who downloads a movie or a game and dislikes it - this person will never buy it, nor recommend it to his friends. The person who downloads a game and is blown away by it - this person has a good chance of becoming a paying customer, plus they talk to their friends about it and possibly strangers too. In the grand scope of things, the amount of converts and value from brand recognition through sharing outweighs the losses from people who simply download and never pay.



Yeah, I can certainly agree with this. I've probably paid for tens of cRPG games, only because I was a pirate when I was young. If I couldn't pirate games, I wouldn't buy them anyway, because I simply didn't have enough money. When I was a child, parents were giving me 10 PLN/month which is equivalent of ~3 dollars. And when i became a teenager and went to part-time work, I needed to support my familiy, and still was able to afford max. 2 games/year. If not piracy, I just wouldn't play. And i wouldn't become RPG fan, but probably found some other hobby.

But pirating was possible, so I was playing for free, my whole childhood and teenage years. And now I have money, and I'm making up for that time, probably paying more for games every single year, than the summarized value of every game I've ever pirated when I was younger. Thousands of dollars, going to developers, only because I was able to taste these games as a child, and develop love for the cRPGs.




Last edited by Shaki; 10/07/14 12:28 AM.