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    5 months ago

    To be fair, piracy does drive down sales, as some of the people who would otherwise buy the game do pirate it.

    Do we know that for sure? If games don’t have demos, and don’t have pirated copies available, how do you know that people who would have otherwise pirated it are just going to go ahead and buy it?

    Also, isn’t the opposite true? If pirated copies of games are available, won’t some people treat them as demos and if they like the game then they will end up buying it to support the developer and to get official updates for the game?