@KeptoKnight
Your argument is specious. Pirates cannot be coerced into making legitimate purchases. This is not lost capitol it is instead capitol that the companies had no expectation of receiving in the first place. Further more Microsoft isn't the most pillaged. The PSP owes a great deal of its sales due to the modding of the device, and Nintendo has had to deal with the pervasive online emulators that directly challenge their virtual console.
Ironically Microsoft has been the most successful in at least extracting their pound of flesh. Thanks to their online raids. Where they locked modded consoles out of live. While many pirates may have shrugged. A good percentage were placed in the situation where they had to buy another console, and pay a new subscription just to get a machine with true full functionality.
Every online service has cheaters. I do not care which system it is, but the reality is and has always been that cheaters make up a very small cross section of a user base. Further more it is not as if they go forth unmolested. Microsoft bans them from their service often, and they even provide the players with ways to report cheaters. Since as a group they push their luck. Enough reports does bring customer service down upon them. Microsoft does seems to take it very seriously. That is why we read about cheater raids a few times each year.
Oh and before you say that for instance Sony is better. I have played the companies online games, and their customer protection isn't even laughable. To be banned from their services you have to literally confess to your crimes. Which means you can basically cheat as much as you want.
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