I can only speak anecdotally, but if I had not pirated so many classic games when I was younger and didn’t have expendable income, I wouldn’t spend the inordinate amount of money on games that I do now. I’ve spent way more than I ever pirated at this point. And I often buy remakes/remasters/rereleases of games I pirated in the past, now that I can afford them. I literally just did that with Ghost Trick.