Post #1744058
2026-04-26 06:18 UTC
> piracy actually increasing sales of games
There were reports, but I never looked into it to check if the articles just made it up without reading the document or if there is some truth behind. Also I have no idea how trustful the document is, nor if its specific to EU. Here is a related article https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/09/eu-study-finds-piracy-doesnt-hurt-game-sales-may-actually-help/ linking and talking about the document https://cdn.netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/2017/09/displacement_study.pdf . I leave the links here for anyone wanting to dig deeper into this subject.
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@NightFantom@slrpnk.net 2026-04-26 07:09
Nice, thanks for the links! I do think it's hard to measure as you inherently have no good metrics for how often something is pirated