Re:Piracy is not theft, Lost sales don't exist, says Minecra...
by majormajor on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @12:25PM
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Former pirate here, I definitely would've shifted some spending around to get a few more games if I'd had to.
I probably would've bought fewer DVDs. My money went to movies - harder to pirate at DVD quality back in the late 90s! - because they were better protected than a lot of the games in the late 90s. Or maybe fewer console games, same story there. But those we could rent, too...
This wasn't "ecosystem" stuff like Photoshop either, this was games we played for a few months and then moved on.
I probably would've bought fewer DVDs. My money went to movies - harder to pirate at DVD quality back in the late 90s! - because they were better protected than a lot of the games in the late 90s. Or maybe fewer console games, same story there. But those we could rent, too...
This wasn't "ecosystem" stuff like Photoshop either, this was games we played for a few months and then moved on.