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Re:Pirate our games, don't buy them from key resellers, say ... by scarejunba on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @01:15PM (#20394179)
Because no one wants to wait, so they’ll just pirate it. This isn’t judgmental. It’s just fact. That’s how consumers behave. If you don’t make something instantly available, people will pirate. Pricing is a mechanism you have to affect that given that you can’t sell at the lower price everywhere and the higher price will lock out people in certain places.
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Re:Pirate our games, don't buy them from key resellers, say ... by yellowapple on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @06:26PM (#20397332)
Piracy ain't forever, though; eventually folks (myself included) might end up buying the game for various reasons (chief among them being the relative bugginess of pirated versions, incompatibility with mods, inability to use online features, or sometimes even just feeling guilty).
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