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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wedgeski" data-source="post: 4762437" data-attributes="member: 16212">All true. Those numbers are unequivocal, by the way, straight from Stardock based on the fact that every instance of the game run in the vicinity of a live internet connection pings the game servers.I guess in this case those numbers are painful because they're not just casual hoarders, the sort of people who click on a torrent for the sake of having it, but instead these are folks who have downloaded, installed, and run the game. It is fair to say that you've probably eliminated some portion (I don't know how many) of those who would 'not have bought the game anyway' in the process.And from a corporate perspective, I don't think any CEO (let alone a share-holder) has the perspective to look at numbers like that and think of it as anything but net lost sales.</blockquote>