Sorry, I didn't follow the conversation, since I had some issues at home.
I feel I own an answer to
Jay_83
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It's only gonna be a matter of time before games companies go bust due to the fact noone's paying for the game and instead is simply feeling they have the right to STEAL somebody elses work. I work in the IT industry and I appreciate just how much effort goes into these things.
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I agree with this more than you might think, but I think it's easy for everyone to consider piracy as THE cause for problems within companies themselves. And don't forget external restrictions that apply that is caused from Sony (i believe). I mean the fixed price for a game is outrageous!!! You pay the same amount of money for Bust-A-Move and for GT4!
Imagine that Company A developed a game for 6 months and the consumer bought it for 60€ and Company B that developed a game for 4 years and gets paid the same.
This would lead to a tendency, in simple economics, create more games than quality games.
Now here comes the issue of price. I always had two questions in mind.
1) Why games cost differently between platforms? For instance, PC version costs 40€ and PS2 version cost 60€. I believe it has to do with royalties that pump up the price.
2) Why there's a huge difference in price tags of the SAME game, same platform, in different territories?
Let's make a poll and everyone from around the world tell us how much does the game cost and which is the average payroll to make some comparisons.
For instance, in Greece, a PS2 game costs 60€ and the average payroll is 700-800€. To help you out this is about 75$/game and 900-1150$/ per month. My calculations show that i need between 7,5-8,5% of my salary to buy a game. Hence i stopped buying games from Greece and started buying them from
www.play.com and eBay, but that's not the issue. The issue is that in poor countries, even the ABSOLUTE price tag is higher than the price of countries that all wealthier! Can someone explain that to me? I would at least expect it to be the same.
As for
reddragon105's remark it sounds rational, but this is very dangerous because everyone can easily stand behind that statement and say that i wouldn't buy game A, game B and so on, therefore justify piracy.
Yet, is what i believe is happening to music (and game industry in a way)industry and they are blaming piracy for it. Every time they tell us that sales have dropped(which is true), but for instance they are hiding the fact that CD-singles are selling like crazy.
This means that market has changed and doesn't want CD albums any more and prefer singles and/or compilations of music. Anyway, we shouldn't talk about music now.
And the paradigm that Jay_83 gave in response to the statement of reddragon105, is not accurate.
It would apply as someone go to a store, and
clone some stock and not physically remove the stock for the store.
P.S: I do OWN GT4 and various other games, most of them are pre-owned just like
lucfan does, because i cannot afford to pay them new.
Only the games i really like i buy new. I'm saying this because I didn't explain that specifically in my previous post and Jay_83 was justifiably doubtful about me.