It definitely is strange that piracy, used, and boycott are all grouped together
buy new: dev gets money, game gets exposure (+2)
pirate game: dev gets no money, game gets exposure, potential for actual purchase (+1.5)
boycott game: dev gets no money, no exposure, potential for actual purchase (+1)
buy used: dev gets no money, exposure, NO potential for actual purchase (+0.5)
+1 is the default for most people, since the vast majority of people generally don't want to buy a particular game. It is better to pirate a game than to boycott it, and it is worse to buy used than to boycott it (hard to wrap your head around, I know). But I guess it's fine to group piracy, buying used, and boycotting all together in the sense that they are all some degree worse than buying new.
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foolmo
at work