Comment by CDRdude
1 day ago
“Many people pirate” is a different statement than “too many people pirate games to make that a viable business”.
1 day ago
“Many people pirate” is a different statement than “too many people pirate games to make that a viable business”.
It's because the poster assume that each pirated copy ought to have been paid for - which if they had been, then a previously failing game would've been viable.
But this doesn't make the statement true - because the assumption that each pirated copy would've been paid for had there been no piracy. This is the same incorrect logic that music/movie copyright holders use to count pirated works' financial "damages".