Crono1973 said:
I don't think it's healthy, especially in this economy, for gamers to be hating on pirates because they care so much about the bottom line of some company that they don't receive a paycheck from. For example, do you hate Wal Mart shoplifters as much as you hate video game pirates? Why not?
Wal Mart is a department store chain. They don't create products so much as they capitalize on the creation of products themselves. They're a middleman, just like GameStop is a middleman. The products sold there, the suppliers, are the people
really getting hurt by the shoplifting. No sale for the product, no gain for the supplier.
Compared to film or TV, our medium is still relatively young; you could take a quadruple-digit fraction of the number of people who watch television in America alone and it still probably wouldn't equal half of the number of people that play video games
worldwide. Therefore, the industry produces accordingly; less. For a medium that for a single game can significantly aid or ail a developer, the loss of one sale for one game is staggeringly
crippling compared to the loss of a sale of something more popular or common, such as an HDTV or a pack of soap.