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Originally Posted by mynameisjim
But what people post on message boards and what they actually do are two different things.
Look at PC game statistics. A game will sell 1 million copies, but download stats will show over 10 million torrent downloads. Same with apps even, an app publisher recently put out a soccer game. Over the weekend they saw that 200K users were on the server, but when they got the sales stats on Monday, only 100 were actual paying customers, the rest were pirated. The article was on Techcrunch recently.
There needs to be a new model, but what people post on message boards is not proof or research data since it doesn't even come close to being in line with what actual statistics of what people really do.
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No, they are not two different things. Sure some of them are lying and some of those buying didn't post shit but this has been done before. Steam has shown that people will still buy games and a whole God damned bunch of them IF they are delivered at a decent price and / or through a system that makes it easier on the end user. There have been similar things done and results posted.
Tell me this. If a popular music artist can spend $200,000 on recording then sell 7 figures in a similar fashion (pay what you want actually) then why couldn't someone do that with porn? $100,000 buys a whole hell of a lot of content for a one off sale and you will see people testing more and more alternative monetization methods over the next several years. In fact, some already are.
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