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Piracy increases videogame sales, according to a report for the European Commission
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this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2023
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I would imagine a considerable number of people use games piracy as a form of demo, since they're very rarely available anymore. Combining that with a lot of people not being able to afford the games they were pirating even if they did want to pay for them, I'm not very surprised that piracy is more of an advertising boost to games than a hindrance.