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It would be interesting to see a follow-up with minutes played by customers and by the pirates instead of only unique users, something that really ought to be i
by swinglock 13y ago
It would be interesting to see a follow-up with minutes played by customers and by the pirates instead of only unique users, something that really ought to be included in their statistics.
It doesn't justify anything, but I think if we are allowed to speculate pirates being more likely to block the game in a firewall (I agree, it's highly likely that more of them are) I may speculate that pirates are far less likely than a customer that paid money to play the game for more than an hour, total. If the pirate doesn't it was essentially a demo run. Maybe the pirate is downloading just about every game released because it's free and drops it as soon as the next download has finished or just doesn't have the attention span to justify for themselves to buy games. The customers that did so that probably weren't happy with the purchase, even though the price is low, unless the game is advertised as being short.
Over 90% users being pirates is depressing, but I think if you look at usage it will be somewhat less so.