Update, September 25: As it turns out, that European Commission report found that piracy actually increased the number of legitimate sales of videogames.A European Commission report on the effect of piracy on the legitimate sales of films, TV, books, music, and games has found that, eventually,
Well, yeah. Pirated games are also much more convenient to run nowadays with all the launcher logins and DRM checks that games go through. If I get a game from EGS that requires any other kind of check, I already have the game for free, but I’ll grab a pirated copy jist so I can launch it will a single click.