I hope piracy remains relevent, really I do, despite paying for all my games. Piracy helps keep publishers in check along with demos, allowing someone to judge a game by its content/quality alone without paying beforehand. I do not condone theft, but I fear a world where these companies go completely unchecked and the consumer is being less and less respected.

People who pirate weren't going to buy games in the first place.
The smart groups are the ones pointing fingers at used sales

Even if they can't crack Denuvo?

I've also seen an increase in the number of demos and betas being made available. A huge increase in fact. I think that is a better method than piracy for judging a game. Even reviews can help

It's bound to be cracked eventually, sure it might take a very long time, but hackers always find a way.

Oh man my spelling is atrocious :-| plus I've made a few mistakes in my reasoning. This is why I shouldn't browse VGC on my phone

Do you think a lack of piracy will result in an increase in sales? Tough question since you can't compare the same game both with and without piracy to a tee.

You know what, the more I think about it, 3DM probably just stopped because they couldn't crack Denuvo and grew lazy. "Measuring sales" would be impossible lol

But can you explain why kids love the taste of Cinnamon Toast Crunch?

Help me out man I set myself up to fail!

Do you at least think piracy will decline in the coming years with increases in DRM tech?

Now there's an idea! Slowly ween people off of piracy by undercutting the pirate groups! Give games away for free! /s

So you don't think one group backing off for a while speaks for piracy as a whole? Will the ratio of purchased to pirated games see a change?

imagine how much they will charge now for complete games?

Sadly, Piracy isn't going anywhere. There's always going to be people who don't want to play by the rules. And I'm not saying it's a good thing but many present game developers have been quoted saying that they pirated games a while back, when they were younger, because they couldn't afford the game at the time. My stance on Piracy has two sides. I say it's okay to pirate games that you can't find anywhere else/no longer being sold. I don't promote pirating fresh off the market games and it's quite difficult to do on consoles anyhow.