JayDee

Sandy there is zero reason for an adult man to not understand the economics of games/movies/music and thinking Piracy somehow lowers your revenues. Piracy at a scale existed only because you were unable to market the product in relevant packaging. I did not pay a single cent for a game for my entire childhood and that did lower your revenues by exactly zero. When internet solved packaging (Steam, ps store etc) piracy became irrelevant. If games were not pirated, we would not play them as we did not watch the movies or listened to music that was not pirated. Today, my kids have hundreds of games fully payed via subscriptions and steam. Piracy created your adresable market. You owe the pirates a huge thanks. If 90% of Game 1 was success and had 90% pirated players, game 2 had much more buyers. Its the same as hearing a great song at a friends party and then buying a concert ticket