Piracy and sales

Reemul said:
I think if I made a game and was selling it for £10 a go and £5 of that money went to me as my earnings as my job and some one downloaded that game for free from somewhere it would feel like someone is stealing £5 from me.
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Feelings don't have much of an impact on the law. As far as the law is concerned piracy isn't theft. If Person X stole your car you would be aware of it as you would no longer have your car. If Person X copied the game you worked on, you would have no awareness of it. You would still have everything you had prior to them copying it. If they had no intention of buying the game you haven't in that scenario even been deprived of the £5.

Reemul said:
It is so we can justify it to ourselves, it's not really that bad, wrong and so on.. I worked in retail as a manager for over 20 years and we catch 1000's of kids stealing make up as they can't afford it so it's not new. People want what they can't afford and will at times do what is needed to get it.
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That's a bad analogy, imagine if those kids were going into the shop and making a perfect copy of the makeup on sale. When they left, the shop still had the exact same level of stock and were unaware the kids had even been in.

This is however a topic that has been discussed to death on here and it wasn't the reason I started the thread.

MissChief said:
Except several Denuvo games have now been cracked? Rise of the Tomb Raider being the first a couple of months ago AFAIK.
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I found a handy reddit post with a status of which Denuvo games have now been "hacked"

Yes, it would appear that some of them have now some form of bypass. However this is many months after release and the majority of them remain unavailable.

I went to a famous bittorrent site and looked at the torrents for PC games. There is hardly anything recent and AAA available. It would appear that Denuvo has had pretty substantial success.

Legal cases against pirates have long tried to equate every download as a lost sale. I'm very interested to know if the sales of AAA games with Denuvo have had any sort of rise compared to sales of AAA games pre Denuvo.
 
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AWPC said:
Denuvo is a good thing. Rise Of The Tomb Raider PC sold almost 1M copies so far & counting I doubt it would have sold anywhere near as many if it were not protected by Denuvo. In a few weeks it gets the last major update & a load of DLC which again would never have made its way to PC without strong sales (PC has outsold XB1 by a long way!).
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I'd love to see a comparison with the sales for Tomb Raider
 
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