I'm NOT saying you should pirate the upcoming game based on an openly-TERF-made IP (remembering that a huge portion of devs in larger game companies are either contractors and are suffering and a purchase will not ease that suffering, or are """lucky""" enough to be paid by salary; if it's a shit company (shocker: most are, especially big ones) any sales-based bonuses almost definitely aren't reaching most of those devs, and even if they do, it'll still sell well enough to trigger most of those bonuses anyway... And let's not forget publishers making this shit even worse.).

It's because piracy helps game sales on AAA games from big studios/publishers (NOTE THAT I SAID ON GAME SALES FROM BIG STUDIOS/PUBLISHERS, NOT INDIE GAMES OR SMALL STUDIOS) because it acts as free advertising (much as shareholders have long rallied to convince us otherwise). It generates content, interaction, engagement, and creates off-platform profit. (BUY INDIE GAMES, PLEASE.) A pirated game does not always equal a sale lost, but a played game (enjoyed or not) generates more engagement than otherwise, and the big corps know it. (One need only look at how Denuvo is implemented and removed from big titles often only during peak sales periods around launch; it only matters when the most money to be made is on the line - it has nothing to do with rights of ownership, fair distribution or fair pricing of a product - it's ONLY about competition for raw profit for a select few at a company/publisher. If the excess profit were actually going to ALL the devs directly, I might think differently, but until I see that each dev is getting a thriving wage and bonuses, the C-tier management asshats are not earning a cent more than their devs, AND it's not all profiting the IP of a fucking TERF, then I remain ethically absolved.)

So I'm NOT saying you definitely should pirate the upcoming game based on an openly-TERF-made IP. (But if, like me, you're gonna punch, punch as high and hard as you can.)

I'm saying that if YOU DO, shut the fuck up about the game online. Yes, even bad reviews. It's all press. Bad reviews hurt the devs, not the TERF. Just slip it under your hat and go about your day, hard as that can be for many.