sure not all pirated games are lost sales but so many of my friends did never buy a game anymore for pc since they could get them for free nobody can tell me they would never have bought a game if they would have had to buy them^^ and i believe they don't care if someone had to crack it or not, they just want to get games for free (these bastards lol)
maybe of 4 million pirated games 500k-1m are lost sales and some who pirated it will buy an other game then with the moey he still has but nobody can really believe that the industry would sell exactly the same number of games without pirating.
maybe many who pirate games spend the same amount they spend without that possibility but i have seen enough people over the last 15 years or so who stopped investing as much money as they did before just because they could get it for free. if i just think back to ps1 time when my whole school played all games for free and i was almost the only one who still paid for games damn...
but drm is useless that's correct and i would say it's just a tactic of them to say all of that. i mean, they can't change it but then you should get a good reputation in the gaming scene and they will get a good one with these statements. people will be willing to pay for these games more than for games from ea or activision.
