 danawhitakerSpace...The Final FrontierPremium
join:2002-03-02
Urbandale, IA | reply to jester121
Re: My acquaintance in Poland always downloads pirate movies "No, at approximately age 9, I reached a level of maturity that permitted me to stop measuring my self-worth based on my ability to speak knowledgably with peers about last night's episode of the latest TV shows or next weekend's movies."
There's no need to be condescending about it. If you think I'm basically talking about water cooler gossip, you're missing my point entirely. The fans I'm talking about are the people who would travel to another country to attend conventions, buy everything as soon as it's available in their region, and are cheerleaders for the shows they watch to no end. They are some of the biggest assets that the content providers *have* because they're the people encouraging everyone they can think of to watch the show too. And then, in turn, their reward for being such an avid fan is being denied the opportunity to watch the product they love when it's first released. So can I see their perspective of choosing to download it? Absolutely. And they still spend money on it when it's available. So I wouldn't fault them for it.
The people like the guy in Poland who downloads anything and everything he can get? He wouldn't be paying in the first place. No one loses money on him. If anything, they maybe gain some, because he might talk up the stuff he watches to other people who would in turn give it a chance and spend money on it when they wouldn't have.
And I don't think beta test is an accurate or fair comparison. I think a better one would be that the game wouldn't be sold in your country at all, or not until an undetermined point in the future. If it's so unimportant, than why is it important enough at all to restrict people geographically from those things?
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