Comments on: A Defense of Video Game Piracy http://www.zippygamer.com/2010/06/video-game-piracy/ Playing with energy. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:19:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: JGH27 http://www.zippygamer.com/2010/06/video-game-piracy/comment-page-1/#comment-1911 JGH27 Sun, 15 Aug 2010 16:16:54 +0000 http://www.zippygamer.com/?p=2710#comment-1911 Keep in mind that the .50 cents you mention may very well be the cost of disc and case, but also think of the costs to produce the actual production and then the formatting to get it onto disc. Plus everyone wants and needs to make a profit. Especially when you factor in royalties. This is before it even gets to the stores hands, who obviously also need to profit. When thinking about a fair price Miserablist, keep in mind of everyone who's getting a pay out and such. Tho I dunno the exchange rate, DVD's here range between $20-$30 here Canadian. Keep in mind that the .50 cents you mention may very well be the cost of disc and case, but also think of the costs to produce the actual production and then the formatting to get it onto disc. Plus everyone wants and needs to make a profit. Especially when you factor in royalties. This is before it even gets to the stores hands, who obviously also need to profit.

When thinking about a fair price Miserablist, keep in mind of everyone who’s getting a pay out and such. Tho I dunno the exchange rate, DVD’s here range between $20-$30 here Canadian.

]]> By: Miserablist http://www.zippygamer.com/2010/06/video-game-piracy/comment-page-1/#comment-1352 Miserablist Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:11:48 +0000 http://www.zippygamer.com/?p=2710#comment-1352 I wonder as well how true this is of films? I never used to buy films until I discovered bittorrent. I simply don't want to pay £15-20+ for a film that may well be a load of crap, I've been burned in the past. Now I download a film/TV show/series and if it's good and I want to keep it then I will buy the DVD or box set. God knows how much I've spent the last few years on DVDs when before I spent nothing. The analogue, as Cory Doctorow calls them, industries need to wake up to the fact that modern consumers won't put up with them producing crap. we want to try before we buy whether they like it or not. Also they need to learn that £20 is not a fair price for a plastic disc in a plastic case that cost all of 0.50p to produce. If they want to survive they need to package their products in a way that makes people want to buy them to keep. I wonder as well how true this is of films? I never used to buy films until I discovered bittorrent. I simply don’t want to pay £15-20+ for a film that may well be a load of crap, I’ve been burned in the past. Now I download a film/TV show/series and if it’s good and I want to keep it then I will buy the DVD or box set. God knows how much I’ve spent the last few years on DVDs when before I spent nothing.
The analogue, as Cory Doctorow calls them, industries need to wake up to the fact that modern consumers won’t put up with them producing crap. we want to try before we buy whether they like it or not.
Also they need to learn that £20 is not a fair price for a plastic disc in a plastic case that cost all of 0.50p to produce. If they want to survive they need to package their products in a way that makes people want to buy them to keep.

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