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Name one. Please name one f... dev, who was forced out of business because of piracy!
Nobody knows how much piracy hurts developers, as nobody has stats on which games are pirated the most. It is interesting to think about, though.
My supposition: People that pirate games are typically experienced gamers. Experienced gamers are more likely to play games that don't have mass market appeal, and thus from the get go are likely to sell less. By pirating these games that don't appeal to many, instead of buying them, the dev's small potential selling base is reduced even less. I could see this forcing the developer to to either make games that appeal to the drones or go out of business. (Perhaps this happened to Black Isle?)
Sure one can say that "Well, it doesn't hurt their sales that I pirated it, since I wouldn't have bought it anyway", but they don't know, because the pirated game was available and they downloaded it.
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