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As it stands there's no good, legal way to combat piracy, and so pirates are strangling the life out of the PC gaming industry.
This is a misconceived notion. They are NOT. Check the stats. It's not just the PC market affected by this. The same thing happens for nearly everything that can be digitally distributed. As anticipated as Crysis 2 is, it will sell, assuming it doesn't suck. Since it's been leaked, the only reason it would fail is if it gets around that it is horrible, and even then it will still probably sell because people are dumb, but unfortunately, if it fails, it will be blamed on piracy instead of the REAL reason.
1. Our game didn't sell. Damn Pirates!
2. Our game broke records! But we would have sold more if it weren't for those damn Pirates!
3. Our game sucks. I blame Pirates!
4. Our game was leaked by inside sources and pirates downloaded it, played it, wrote up a rave review and we sold millions! Those bastards!
5. Our game was leaked by inside sources and pirates downloaded it, played it, wrote up a review trashing it. Game didn't sell. It's because of those Pirates!
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