• Shadowedcross
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      1220 days ago

      Well according to these companies, piracy is lost revenue, so I guess that would count as buying it negative times.

    • @pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
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      520 days ago

      I track how many times I intend to buy a game in a short unsigned integer, so I briefly shifted from planning to buy this zero times to planning to buy 127 copies.

      Thankfully, I updated my mental model in time. But maybe that’s the effect they’re going for, here?

      • DebatableRaccoon
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        320 days ago

        Hard to say. Scaring customers away is an interesting marketing strategy unless they’ve started doing some Hollywood accounting and get an insurance payout for a product they already knew would fail.