mmovses writes:
100% percent agree that "...the revenue lost ..." because of the piracy. But I have a little different point of view about that, look in the countries like argentina, russia, etc. only ~20%(max) of players who bought the pirate version would buy the original one if there would no be other choice, especialy in late 90's and especialy if we are speaking about MM. So generaly speaking if there wouldn't be a pirate version, people wouldn't buy the game at all. The marketing people in 3do i believe are those who failed in their calculations of market of those countries. And revenu lose is mostly cause of their failure.
I myself live in one of those "one-copy countries". But nowdays high speed internet and p2p networks solved the one copy problem pretty much.
You say "And I almost certainly know a lot more about 3DO's demise than you do." Could you tell me something what I don't know if you have some kind of special information.
Thank you again.
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