How are piraters contributing to 3rd party sales?

All pirates are wholely ethical and pirate only for the good of mankind.  As such they always buy what they pirate later.

The internet told me so.

thats the point i don't think m$ leak it

But they contribute with MS hardware sales I guess, but then they lose money with hardware sales, and people who buys pirate software I don't think that they will buy any original software ,  I don't think MS would get anything from them. so I'm not so sure then. Maybe evil peple.

I am not sure what kindof people you associate yourself with, but this "pirate" will be buying the game. On November 7th. With the artbook. and the gun.

While the people that leaked this should be shot...you can't really fault the users that are downloading this to play it. Like its almost 3 weeks early, thats a huge amount of time.

If someone told me "you can play resident evil 5 now if you pirate it or you can wait till march otherwise". I'd pirate the game...no doubts about it.

Too bad you're supplying the torrent to the asshats that aren't going to buy it.

Ok you got me on that one...but I have serious limits set on that and it gets delete the task right after it finishes downloading.

The sales of this game are going to be phenomenal regardless, what percentage of potential buyers do you actually think are going to get through torrents.

Ah yes, the "it will sell well anyway" excuse. 

I can only wonder what would happen if everyone thought that way.

Communism!

I kid.