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BraLoD said:
Everyone was a pirare here in Brazil back in the day, now a decent bunch of us spend a lot of money on videogames.
It sure helped the industry to grow in some countries that would otherwise be forming almost no gamers back then, and its still a door to create and boost interest in gaming to new players today.
It's good piracy has decreased a lot as gaming evolved, as piracy is definitely also bad for a lot of companies, and the best way to act is not to demonize it, but to bring more potential consumers the chance to legitimately play games, by adequating to the different realities of the people they sell it to.
Piracy is an opportunity, it means there are more people wanting to give you money if you give them a honest chance to do so, and give them good products to make them want to stay with you.

I watched a documentary about gaming in Brazil before, and the people interviewed said that if there were no emulators people would have just stopped playing video games rather than going out and buying them.