Videogames piracy - Why so much hate?

[Napoléon]

You can say it as many times as you want. It's not true. Some people who pirate these products would have bought them.

Equally there could be just as many gained sales from people like myself who try a game out and eventually find it's worth paying for. Again, you can't predict. It's all conjecture. Which is why what you're talking about is bullshit.

I initially learned about piracy of music from a colleague who was making $85K annually. He went from buying 20 - 30 CDs a year to buying zero. He started by looking for a rare song he couldn't find elsewhere - an excuse some give here. It spiraled from there.

My friend is a baker. Whoopiteedoo.

While it's ridiculous to make loss estimates assuming that every piracy represents a lost sale, it's equally ridiculous to claim that no acts of piracy result in lost sales.

Really?

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/201103...sale.shtml
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/201307...oney.shtml
http://www.vg247.com/2012/05/19/cd-proje...t-up-with/

All of these people are talking shit are they then? I guess their views are ridiculous?

If people have money they will pay for a product worth paying for. If they don't have the money, then the entire notion of a 'lost sale' is fucking ridiculous. If they have the money and later find out the game is shit after pirating, resulting in them not buying it, that's still not a lost sale. That's the developers own fault for making a shit game not worth buying.