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Damn, that's the same bass-ackwards logic that record companies use to say piracy makes them lose money.
Spoiler alert: the majority of people pirating your stuff would not have otherwise purchased it. You have lost nothing.
Similarly, the majority of people using gamepass to play the game would absolutely not have bought the game, especially since it's the same game as last time, with new names and skins.
For instance: the last call of duty game I bought was MW3. I only played black ops 2 when someone got two copies for their birthday and gave one to me I only remember playing for the zombies. I have played a total of less than 30 minutes, from startup screen to shutdown, of all the call of duties since then. Absolutely no chance in hell I'd buy another one. But I'm sure Microsoft would have included me trying it out as a potential lost sale of every one of them.
Man piracy should get their act together there is piracy causes more people to purchase your games. Then there is they never would have bought it. Frankly I don't care I orate cause I want to and don't try to justify it with any BS.
Seriously. I never would have bought Earthion, TWICE, if I hadn't pirated it and fell in love with it. I firmly believe in financially supporting creators that make things I love. I DON'T believe in taking the risk of paying asking price for a game I may not enjoy in an era when demos are a rarity. As a point of comparison, Trails in the Sky FC has a demo, which I played, and convinced me to buy the full version. Pirating Switch content isn't worth the time an effort to me, and without the demo, I never would have bought it.
I've been seeing a lot more demos of games on Steam in the last year or so.
I have noticed a bit of an uptick on Switch, too, but not nearly enough when games are running upwards of $60 at retail. I'm not paying that much for a 100 hr JRPG with a combat system I don't enjoy. Trails sold me on the combat system alone.