Which implies that people tend to rather believe pirates than legit owners ?
In the early days, people just look for any early indicators about a game without questioning the source too much. In later days review aggregation sites and forums don't typically provide any means to distinguish between a legit game review and a pirated game review.
But it's the early stuff that hits the hardest - once you set an impression it tends to influence other reviewers regardless.
Bioware had a neat solution in place for NWN - put a key check on posting on certain boards of the official forum, including those dealing with bugs. People with illegitimate copies would try and moan about bugs on one of the open boards and be told to go post it on the right board, which they couldn't.
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