Yet, when buying WAS owning (when physical copies of games were prevalent), it didn't stop pirating. Quite the opposite. You can have your own moral compass. B

Yet, when buying WAS owning (when physical copies of games were prevalent), it didn't stop pirating. Quite the opposite. You can have your own moral compass. But most people who pirated games didn't do that out of spite. They didn't do that to protest against game-as-a-service or microtransaction or whatever "unethical" practices that the industry adopted.