Bingoogus
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- Sep 5, 2021
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I struggle to see how you come to that conclusion... those of us already following the game continue to get early access thanks to leaks, those searching by top rated games will still come across it and upon checking will discover it's still in active development, those who discover the game elsewhere and search for it here to pirate it will find it easy to do so. All that's really taken away is passive blind discovery, including both new pirates and potential new supporters. The anti piracy crowd might scoff at the suggestion of 'potential new supporters' but there's simply no denying the fact that a number of people who regularly visit this thread both discovered the game via this website and have given it monetary support to some degree at some point, so they certainly exist, even if you choose to think of them as dismissable minority. The impact of day-1 leaks is still as present now as before the game was removed from the promotion system as anyone who was already benefiting from those leaks still knows how and where to benefit from them...The lack of promotion here undoubtedly has a reduction effect on the amount of piracy even if minor.
If this is a win on any level then i'll just quietly chuckle to myself whenever someone brags about it.