{"id":8286,"date":"2011-09-12T13:42:20","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T20:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=8286"},"modified":"2018-07-18T18:31:50","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T18:31:50","slug":"quantic-dream-cites-piracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/quantic-dream-cites-piracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Quantic Dream Cites Piracy on Heavy Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10599\" style=\"width: 314px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10599\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10599\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/heavy_rain_cover-S.jpg\" alt=\"Developer Quantric Dream estimates it has lost 1 million units in sales to used trade of Heavy Rain.\" width=\"304\" height=\"350\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10599\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Developer Quantric Dream estimates it has lost 1 million units in sales to used trade of Heavy Rain.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">SEPT. 12, 2011 \u2022 French developer Quantic Dream estimates that it has lost a potential \u20ac10 million ($13 million) to used sales of its Heavy Rain game. The game has sold more than 2 million units, yet the PS3&#8217;s trophy system indicates more than 3 million people have played the title.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>Impact: The issue of used games is a thorny one.\u00a0 Of course, sales will be lost but consumers selling used products is simply a factor in pricing any commercial product, whether furniture, a house, a car or a video game.\u00a0 Many consumers may be willing to pay more knowing that the game will have a resell value when they are done with it.\u00a0 Other consumers may not be willing to pay the initial launch price and will only buy at a lower price.\u00a0 For games that have a goal of becoming a franchise with sequels, used games can help bring in consumers to the franchise.\u00a0 So actually trying to put a dollar figure on the impact of used sales is more complex than adding up the number of consumers that bought a used copy.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEPT. 12, 2011 \u2022 French developer Quantic Dream estimates that it has lost a potential \u20ac10 million ($13 million) to used sales of its Heavy Rain game. The game has sold more than 2 million units, yet the PS3&#8217;s trophy system indicates more than 3 million people have played the title. Impact: The issue of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[78,66],"tags":[415],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8286"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16558,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8286\/revisions\/16558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}