Gabe already crack the code.
good enough services/products then people will buy it.
bad products (generally bad, buggy, too bad of DRM, not worth the money.) it will get pirated or it wouldn't because it just doesn't worth the effort to get pirated.
people are here with different reasons but as for me, it's like a full game "DEMO" that if it's good enough, i'll go back and find the source to buy the full game or the game just doesn't sell anywhere outside of japan which i just couldn't buy it.
this game dev and some of the others tried so hard to put a paywall into their game kinda like DRM which proves time and time again that it will literally kill your product and it does cost them extra just for few days to weeks before it crack again.
with how small the project is, this type of practicing will only damage their brand and still, they tried to justify it in "this" site, it's funny to say the least