Sugestion regarding piracy

[Jinix]

Lets say there are 10 pirates for every paid customer.
Then game makers should price their products accordingly.
Yes, the customer must pay the difference just like every other thing in life.
From insurance fraud to the cost of shoplifters - products have those costs factored in the price.
You won't stop piracy so to stay profitable you have work around that.

Frictional Games needs to follow the success of Fallout 3's downloadable content. They charge a bit for extra episodes and get it, in spite of the hundreds of free mods that are as much or more fun to play. Now make buyable addons. I'll buy more assets, scripts and models for the editor anytime. I'll pay more for that then I did the game. I'll buy updates to the editor too.

Don't worry about pirates - if Microsoft's software was never pirated they and computers in general would have barely caught on for the general public and certainly not in such short a time.
When software first came out it was pirated as a norm. The first computer stores always pre-installed 'copies' of retail software just to sell the computers.
Some of the most pirated were Autocad and Microsoft Word and Excel - all are billion dollar companies now. The ones that failed may cry piracy as a factor but it was more inferior products or not enough marketing savvy that got them - not pirates.

Piracy has always been around and all things are equal.
I'm betting that most of the sharers of pirated software wouldn't buy anyways. Most are too young and their parents would never buy it for them, or too broke to buy, so where is the real monetary loss? As long as the company can make enough to pay the investors a profit and give themselves a nice bonus plus wages what else should be necessary.

As long as it remains illegal and someone gets busted to show the severity of getting caught once in a while, it'll average out. There are enough honest people around that will not pirate and that's the market to be concerned about.

Eventually it'll be impossible to do anything 'wrong'. Every piece of data on every human will soon be in a data center that can catch you the moment you download something you shouldn't.