6th July 2012, 11:21 AM
GR, that actually makes a sort of ruthless pragmatic sense. Thank you for explaining that.
Still, I can't help but think that the "lost sales" to imports are overblown a bit. After all, books aren't region locked and I've yet to see US publishers turn down UK books because they fear lost sales to early importers. It's the sort of thing I also wonder about when game makers justify the cost of games compared to, say, movies. We all know movies cost more to make than games after all.
Recent wider studies of the effects of piracy also seem to suggest losses are more overblown than normally thought, but that's another issue entirely. There I'm not upset at companies stopping piracy, just that their attempts to do so end up hurting legitimate consumers far more than pirates.
Still, I can't help but think that the "lost sales" to imports are overblown a bit. After all, books aren't region locked and I've yet to see US publishers turn down UK books because they fear lost sales to early importers. It's the sort of thing I also wonder about when game makers justify the cost of games compared to, say, movies. We all know movies cost more to make than games after all.
Recent wider studies of the effects of piracy also seem to suggest losses are more overblown than normally thought, but that's another issue entirely. There I'm not upset at companies stopping piracy, just that their attempts to do so end up hurting legitimate consumers far more than pirates.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)