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I never said anything about game companies having to fire people. The example was for anime, and it does stand to reason that with the high costs of licensing, piracy does cost people their jobs. The same thing holds true for gaming I'd imagine, since more copies are being played than being paid for when people resort to piracy of new products. Also, Delta Force: Black Hawk Down just arrived for the Xbox. Damned late mail man.
NOT EVERYONE WHO PIRATES A GAME OR ANIME WILL BUY IT. Simple fact, changes everything.
Along those lines, if you let me borrow one of your games, then there are more copies being played than being paid. UH OH. BETTER MAKE IT SO PEOPLE CANNOT LOAN THEIR GAMES TO FRIENDS!Quote:
The same thing holds true for gaming I'd imagine, since more copies are being played than being paid for when people resort to piracy of new products.
And you know, I bought a copy of PGR2 last week, used, for $12. Microsoft only got paid for that copy once, when it was purchased new. So wait, there are more copies being played than being paid. BETTER MAKE IT SO PEOPLE CANT BUY USED GAMES!
And guess what? Shit like Steam does exactly that. And Nintendo went to court in the 1980s to restrict game rentals and shit. These companies are scum.
Just because the companies as a whole are scum doesn't mean the individual employees are. You'd be a fool to think that no one loses a job in a company that has been greatly affected by piracy.
That's easy for someone with millions of dollars to say.Quote:
Originally Posted by morphix
We can't all afford to buy every anime series we might want to see, and since 99% of the shit out there wont ever run on american TV stations, the last resort is to find the episodes online.
Now I for one don't pirate anime shows, but that's only because I'm far too lazy. Not because I have some moral objection to viewing them free of charge.
Ahh, clever wording here. Of course people lose a job in these companies, people lose jobs in every company. But is it because of piracy? No. Piracy is part of the software business, its accounted for. The developers who make the games get paid by normal business procedures whether or not the game is pirated out the ass.Quote:
You'd be a fool to think that no one loses a job in a company that has been greatly affected by piracy.
Do you seriously believe Microsoft doesn't account for piracy when they do their sales projections? And then they cut jobs because of piracy? You're insane if you believe that's how it is.
Piracy in fact gives people more jobs than it takes away: look at all the fucking DRM schemes, copy protection schemes (Macrovision, etc.), lobbyists for the IDSA/BSA, law enforcement efforts, etc.
You can't afford something does not give you the right to steal it. That is just how life works.
Diff, piracy may create more jobs outside of the gaming companies, but my point is that gaming companies (and any company affected by piracy) still have to cut jobs due to it. Clever wording?!? From ME!?! I'll mark this day on my calendar.
Like I said, find me a list of developers who have lost their jobs primarily because of piracy. I dont think you will.Quote:
but my point is that gaming companies (and any company affected by piracy) still have to cut jobs due to it
Youll find developers who lost their jobs because the companies need to downsize, but they dont need to downsize because of piracy, as I already said.
Why should he go through the trouble to explain why piracy is bad to a meat head like you?
Go ahead and steal all you want, the law will get you sooner or later.
diff, I'm using logic, not so much facts, to back up my thoughts. Logically, if people steal something, money is lost somewhere, and it stands to reason that they would fire people due to piracy. They probably don't want to, but I can see it hurting a company to the point where no other option is available.