The only thing that was cheap about the game was that buying it was "the right thing to do," wasn't illegal, and it didn't make the player feel guilty. This game was expensive, it took forever to install and deal with the invasive DRM, which was only slightly more fun than getting groped by the TSA in the comfort of your own home. So, let's start with my favorite example, Dragon Age II. You have a finite number to spend, and you never get any more. That doesn't make them any less real, however - as I'm about to demonstrate, the $P and $I cost of a service are sometimes the most important ones. Obviously, $P and $I are the most subjective "currencies" and it's hard to quantify them, even on an individual basis. I hate spending theseįor the purpose of this article Money-dollars will be denominated in USD, Time-dollars will be denominated in hours, and Pain-in-the-butt-dollars will be denominated in SI standard units of "amount-of-aspirin-I-have-to-take-after-beating-my-head-against-the-wall-for-an-hour." Feel free to measure Integrity-dollars in Hail-Marys, or hours spent lying awake at night. Whether a player buys or pirates a game depends on how much each service - not product! - "costs" in terms of these four currencies, as well as how much the player values each one. This is wrong because there are at least four currencies involved here, not just one (money-dollars). Therefore, most people will pirate the game if they have the choice and we must do everything we can to physically stop them. So, the problem is framed somewhat like this: Buying the game from us costs money-dollars.
The problem with most piracy debates is that the only "cost" they discuss is money-dollars.
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