it’s not about the leaking but how fast it’s leaked. A few hours after release for the highest tiers is just disrespectful for the developer.Another episode of people complaining about piracy on a piracy forum, the deal was always free publicity in return for pirated content. It's almost always a massive net gain for the devs who will never have the capacity or funding to market their works otherwise.
How many of these games do you think you'd ever find without this forum? You can't expect the same traffic if you restrict posts to only free editions with zero leaks. Grow up.
so yes this is a pirate site and every game that leaked get a fan base that can become patreons or subscribers
but they will leaving this because somebody leak the update in a day.
have respect for the developer and just wait a week before leaking the update.
the people that use this site for the games will get the update for free. They just have the wait longer then the one that paid for it
is that too much too ask for.