People are voting with their wallets. They were willing to buy it. But this effects them and made the game no longer worth it. Pirates will pirate regardless. But you just lost some of the genuine customers by effecting them, pirates will have a “better” version.
A bad one at that!
Like seriously, the game wasn’t good back then, but everyone went googoo gaga over art style. I’ve never seen worse story with such a boring open world content, it makes Ubisoft game design look good…