Whilst it's true that prices, in many ways, are perceived as being too high for media, the complaint that high ticket prices at the cinema 'force' people to pirate is very poor justification indeed.
I wasn't trying to attempet to add jsutification, just reasoning which you've actually added onto further down
It's certainly not helping the situation, especially say family with 3 kids and the young uns all want to see the "summer hits" that easy £50 in tickets to start with, most will look at this with a why bother attitude and just DL it.
There are hundreds, if not thousands of products that people think are too highly priced; from designer clothes to luxury food - does that justify stealing them?
Of course not.
People still do *shrug*
The physical properties argument holds no water either, as has been stated, it takes very real physical resources to produce media - that plainly represents their intrinsic physical value.
They haven't been deprived of the physical resources in order to produce the item either.
What's more cinemas actually make very small profit margins - that could be attributed to studios charging too high a price for the right to screen films, but for whatever reason that's the current going rate.
Heres the bit I was mentioning, the cinema may have relatively small margins, if however it is due to studios charging them through the nose in order to screen a movie then surely this is a contributing factor to the "cinema experience" cost that needs to be looked at?
People are acting like media content is a God given right. It's a LUXURY, if you can't afford it you shouldn't feel it's still your absolute right to have it for free just because you don't like paying for it.
Part fo the problem, 80/90's as referenced too earlier were prolific for piracy yet nothing really ever seemed to get done about it.
Multi deck VCR's, Multi deck tape players, Radio to casette, your friends speccy game to a blank tape.
Some And this is a vicious circle because pirates push up the price for the honest consumer, arguably more than any other factor.
Yes Piracy is a problem, however there are multiple factors to it, I disagree Piracy is the main one. The attitude towards consumers is imho
I personally greatly appreciate the stealth punishments that some games deal out to pirates, from the wonky cape in Arkham Asylum to the giant pink Scorpion in Serious Sam 3. Both games I legitimately paid for in Steam, but both at a sweet price in a sale.
Even more amusing when people start kicking off on the official forums about a bug theyre facing
I didn't want to pay full price either, so I waited until they were on sale, it's not as if there aren't legit ways to pay less. It's just that pirates have a twisted set of morals and an idea the world somehow owes it to them.
Most games within a few weeks of release now are <£15 unfortunatley people are inpatient. There other ways to pay yes, liek the russian keys and stuff. But then the publisher then goes and blocks a valid key as they decide your country should pay more? Same with prices on steam £/€/$ seem to be at some randomly invented exchange rate and as above theyre not decided by steam/valve but by the publishers of the game.
