The BBC interviewed a 23 year old UK gamer named Sam, who refused to give his last name despite claiming he didn’t fear prosecution, ”I buy games because I’ve pirated them, if I don’t get to try them I never would have bothered picking them up. I’ve never been fined. I’ve been doing this since I was 14 and I’m now 23… Games that I enjoy I purchase, ones that I don’t enjoy I delete.”
Association for UK Interactive Entertainment chairman Andy Payne is stating the cost of videogame piracy is immeasurable and damaging to the industry, and suggests that cheaper games is the answer to piracy, stating, “You can be playing that game every single day for a year… Look at FIFA, Modern Warfare, Black Ops, those games people are playing all the time. That’s great value.”
He then added that piracy has hurt those who worked hard to create these games which have cost millions to produce, “(Some) 200, 250 people sat in a studio for two years building the latest Modern Warfare 3. This costs real money.”
Videogame piracy has plagued the industry much like it has the music and film industry. Let us know what you think.
