Crytek thinks pirates would buy Crysis if they had to

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I was willing to pay for Psychonauts despite not even needing to, since I had a crack for it and a burned set. I'm not even interested enough in crysis to try obtain a pirated copy.

I'm not arguing the logic though. If the game is so hot that people are willing to the effort of pirating it and making it available, then at least part of those people grabbing it probably would have ended up buying it if it was made clear that it would not be possible to get a pirated version of it.

Doesn't mean that some people are willing to try the pirated copy purely because it's free. There are quite a few pirated games that I'm going "meh, okay, it's mildly entertaining, but i could have easily passed it right up"