[Hitman]

My two cents:

Cent#1: I have always thought that the main user of naval games is on average much older than in other popular games, and normally has also both a sense of honesty and enough money to buy legitimate copies of the games, so that the official No-DVD exe is IMHO a correct policy to please that kind of user.

Cent#2: In turn, IMO -and I have of course not conducted any marketing poll- the guys (Usually younger) who use pirate naval games are mainly those who would NEVER have bought them, but use the pirate version because of being "free" for them. I.e. they download the game and try it, but would never have bought it instead if there had not been an cotsless alternative. So on average I don't think that it hurts the game sales, as most pirates would not have bought a legitimate copy. However, they might get hooked to teh concept and be interested in buying further releases, so the idea is not completely mad IMO.