Spreading the word about a game you pirated and enjoyed is "at worst an equal trade," Hakita says.

I mean good for him.

But very few pirates actually can’t afford shit. It’s mostly people in shitty regions and freeloaders who don’t pay for anything.

So, money the company was never going to make anyway then, got it.

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You have to be playing Devil’s advocate for the sake of it because every significant study done on the subject shows that piracy has a positive or at worst neutral effect on the industry.

devil’s advocate would be calling this a hollow publicity stunt

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