>1) Judging by experience of many friends in game industry, the moment a non-free game appears on torrents, sales go down In the case of most games, sales are

>1) Judging by experience of many friends in game industry, the moment a non-free game appears on torrents, sales go down In the case of most games, sales are steadily decreasing over time anyway - so it'd need to be a pretty marked step down to remove the possibility that they're simply following trend. It'd be interesting trying to account for that in an analysis. Anecdotally, I have several friends who torrent games by default - but they legitimately wouldn't buy anyway (to quote "lol at buying videogames in the year of our lord 2016").