mk555 wrotequick question
If everybody stopped pirating games,software and music... would that decrease there prices, I mean if that ever happens would we see original games being sold for under 30$ or so ?
sorry but I didn't feel creating a topic for this question.
There is no real easy answer to your question. When a company prices a product, it takes into effect all kinds of things like development, distribution, and other costs including theft. All things being equal, if a company were to find a way to economically remove theft, it should lead to a reduction in costs, and therefore prices.
However, the alternative would be to employ different pricing strategies across different regions. A game sold in the US for $50 may need to be priced differently here, say $30. Would that eliminate theft--no way in hell that happens. What would happen is it would decrease the disincentive to get the pirated copies. DVD's in the US are $12-$15--in Russia, you can get DVD's (R-5's) for $5 or less which are made specifically to combat piracy. I don't think Lebanon is big enough of a market to do that, but it could conceivably be done across the entire Middle East.
