70% of Russian Gamers Are Pirates Following Western Publisher Exodus

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I mean, it's always been like that here. It's a really poor country, most people don't have money to play games. Regional prices make it a bit easier, but after russian money stopped being usable internationally, most people returned to piracy
According to what I would hear in some of my old TF2 lobbies, this number is down from 100%.
That's lower than I would have thought.
- The other 30% are the COD players currently missing somewhere in Ukraine
I'ts more like 100% of people are pirates in Russia. But close enought =)
The other 30% have yet to understand how to pirate games.
- From the exorbitant numbers of Russians playing DotA and CS:GO I would assume there is a significant part who enjoys playing online games.
  And while, sure, there are numerous examples of alternative networks / cracked servers etc., If you want to participate in "real" community of one of these games, you'll have to use an official client.
  
  What do you mean by real community ?
I can just imagine these companies that pulled out seeing that they lose a money to piracy there since there's no legal methods to access new western content - when places like Steam stopped accepting Russian bank cards - and then use that as the reason piracy is killing everything.
Sorry, we had to close up shop because we weren't selling our product in another country and they had no other option but to be dirty pirates. It's their fault and not our fault they had no legal way to pay us for our product.
In absolute numbers they will only be a drop compared to Chinese pirates, trust me.
Smartphone games are being just rushed by russians too. All these garbage p2w sinks are becoming really popular with bored russian upper class. The vacation to europe is cancelled might as well drop 2000$ to bully some people in this casual game to feel better about myself sort of vibes. Nasty.

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