bd - What you are seemingly incapable of realizing is that the vast majority of people who pirate use the money they didn't spend to buy food. They wouldn't have bought that game or another game, they'd just sit there contemplating suicide because they have to work themselves to death just to stay alive, never own anything, and don't have any form of entertainment. Again, most pirates just don't have money for games, period.
Monsta - Again, most pirates just don't have money for games, period. PC is even worse for this, because at least with consoles you have to get them for gaming. PCs are general purpose devices and therefore a little more common in the poor countries where most piracy occurs. Crysis's situation was exacerbated by the fact that everyone knew long before it launched that it wasn't going to be a good game. When devs make good games with genuine appeal it simply doesn't matter how much piracy there is, that game will sell well. There are bound to be far, far more pirated copies of San Andreas than Crysis, yet it is the best selling game on the best selling system at 17-18 million.
If their product was good, they wouldn't have had any complaints about piracy, and that's because piracy isn't the issue, they are. Even if piracy didn't exist they would have lost just as big on Crysis, there would just be less people around that could say they played it.
And after that, no one took money out of EA's pockets or products off their shelves, so it's completely incomparable to stealing from a store. Not just de facto, but legally as well.
You do not have the right to never be offended.
