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| adjl 06/01/21 9:39:09 PM #16: | Revelation34 posted... People are not going to suddenly buy a product if piracy is made impossible. No, but people are going to choose not to buy a product if piracy is possible. It's far from being the perfect equivalency industry executives like to pretend it is (that is, not every pirated copy is a lost sale), but there are still damages. Now, when you're looking at pirated copies of games that are no longer available for sale? Then it becomes a lot harder to claim that anything is lost. Unless there are immediate plans to rerelease the games (which, in the case of Nintendo's older stuff, doesn't seem to be the case), it's literally impossible for players to buy the game from the publisher, meaning used copies and piracy (which generate the same amount of revenue for the publisher) are the only options. There should really be provisions for that, especially where it's so easy now for publishers to make their content available for sale. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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