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Old 20-11-2012, 11:17
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Originally Posted by RespectThis View Post
The hard-work people put into the games themselves isn't even appreciated by paying for it.
True, but the reason for this is not piracy, rather game publishers ripping off both game developers and gamers. (Just like, in general, merchants ripping off producers and consumers, between which they managed to wedge themselves very firmly in the last few centuries.) Game developers get about 1-2% of the retail price, 5% is an extremely high percentage e.g. given to the internal game developer team at Sega.

(Off-topic but I couldn't resist.)
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