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Piracy > resellers
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this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2023
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Ok. So. That doesn’t seem so bad to me.
It pushes the price of games up in countries where the median income is a small fraction of places like the US. So it either takes away the gaming experience or encourages piracy from people who would have loved to support the developers and enjoy the game that way.
Fair enough. But devil's advocate: presumably they're still selling it there at a profit?
Profit for game industry is relative to sales, because the cost per digital game is practically $0, it's all paid upfront.
You can sell a game for 1 cent and if all people on the planet buy it, it will probably still turn a profit.