Let's look at this rationally: Every single illegal download is something of a loss. True, some of them might not have bought the game at full price, but there comes a point at which they'd have said "Okay, sure." $30? $20? $10? $5? $1?SaturdayS said:Clearly those 2 million people who downloaded the game were guaranteed to actually buy the game had piracy not existed. I don't see how else you could sum up those numbers as "losses".
I want to include a zinger about how Andy had to look up what a petabyte is, but I'm sure he deserves better than that.
Every pirated copy is not a loss of a full-price sale, no. But it is almost always something of a loss.