By the time someone cracks denuvo, denuvo version 2 will be out, seems as though they've gotten ahead of the crackers.

This group did manage to crack Dragon Age: Inquisition which used Denuvo, but it took quite a while. I wouldn't say they've gotten ahead of the crackers yet, but in a year or two, possibly.

If you are obtaining a game that you cannot get through legitimate means (ie in a way that would benefit the game's makers) then piracy is reasonable. This would apply for games that are out of production or will never be released in your region, and that's about it.

For any game that is openly available piracy is wrong. If you don't want to by a game then you shouldn't have it. I didn't have much money as a kid so I sucked it up, saving what I could get, and bought what I could.

If piracy were eliminated of course game sales would rise. Millions of people aren't going to stop gaming altogether, the hobby is too deeply entrenched. They obviously wouldn't buy a copy for each game they would have pirated, but they would buy some games.

Ah, thank you

Piracy is going to happen. The market is the biggest factor in this regard. If people don't have the expendable income to purchase these things they will be more liable to use other methods to obtain them. Call it deviant, but think of it as moving water where a dam will only hold so much before the water circumvents it.

I'm sorry if i came off as harsh or uncompromising..... its just that this is a very sensitive topic for me. And no, I am not a developer, but I have dabbled in making some apps and I feel for developers when in comes to piracy and the effect piracy has on them. 

I also understand that there are people that simply can't fford to buy these games, and some even can but have no legitimate easy means to get them due to where in the world they are.

In all honesty, my issue is what those that actually can afford these games. Those that can afford to spend $500+ on a GPU and God knows what else on everything else; but cheap out on actually buying the game because its easy to pirate it.

My problem with piracy, especially on the PC, is that for majority of PC gamers piracy is a very accepted distribution model. There are a lot of PC gamers I know that don't for a second even consider ever actually paying for a game. Like why the hell should you pay for something that you can get for free?

The impact won't be all that much.Many who pirate cant afford games.

How many is a lot btw?, how much of the entire PC userbase are we talking here?.

All the PC guys I know don't pirate and have hundreds of games on Steam as well as GoG.

hmmmm. well, when a games recoredee sales on PC is less than the amount of times the game is pirated, would you consider that as a lot?

I dunno, it just seems to me that you're using some slight sales data and pairing it up with some ottrent numbers and claling it a day on a market of gamers. It reminds me of the time Ubisoft outright called all PC gamers pirates, I don't see how this is any different.