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As someone who first pirates games and when i love them buy them... I agree with you about it being fustrating and there has not been a single developer in this industry who has not complained about piracy. They either fought futile against it followed by them plainly giving up on their project. Please don't let is drag you down, the glass is half full, focus on the 7% and i hope with you it increases.

As a person living in today's economy... as much as i would love to i can not support every single game with the female domination genre. I tend to support games which are really showing promise and promise with me is build on 3 pillars in the following order: Stability, Story/Writing and Art/Images/Animations.

While the 2 last are obvious on why it is a pillar, the first most important is project stability and that is mainly about you. I need to see and know you are stable (steady updates, news, mental health, ...) and live by what you say (principles) aka keeping your promises. You have been doing amazing so far, thank you. I'm glad i still got an eye for good developers like you who i deeply support.

As a long time female domination project follower and gamer i can tell you posts like this will maybe increase your stats to +/- 9% which isn't much. Here is some advice if you want to lower piracy but keep in mind even this is not bullet proof but definately will help you increase your $ numbers. The point is to make it harder to pirate, let 'em sweat a bit. Link the game to the network (online) and make it so that it can only work with internet connection. Make unique codes for every sell from now on while also sending unique codes to everyone in your database who bought the game already. Link that code to the game database for access. Keep building on that based on how people pirate your game, you will see it popping up on pirate sites with manuals so see how they do it and build a countermeasure against it, rinse and repeat to keep it difficult to pirate. Handling piracy is like working in the garden, if you don't want the weeds you can't just wish it gone, you got to put in the time and effort to keep it low.

Ps: The reason why i pirate the games first is because many put female domination in the mentioned genres while there is a girl only insulting a guy in a scene... Yea, i'm not paying 10 EUR for that. It seems female domination is something subjective depending where one lives. I don't know if this info can help you with promoting the game better to help people skip this stage and instantly invest in your game.

Edit: To be clear before i get shot, i bought this game close to release.