I am sorry this keeps happening to you Doc. You really don't deserve this, but as you say, your games are very popular, and sadly piracy is the price to be paid for that, but on the other hand often people will download a pirate game and usually if they enjoy it enough, they go back to the game maker and actually buy a genuine copy or in your case hopefully support you.Hope you and your family etc are doing great, take care for now Doc :)
Absolutely. I found the Visual Novel genre a few years ago. Pirate sites rip off the dev but usually offer Free. Mostly no or limited virus possibility. When I've found something I Want very much and have no money I've used a site or 2. Then I found SubscribeStar or here when I have $$ and may give it to the dev for a month or however long. I try to help devs when I can, offset their costs. My personal philosophy is there's no chance in hell I'm paying for a game if I can't even test it for free and try when it's had a few updates to see if I even like it. Who throws 5-10$ on a few lbs of asparagus if they don't know whether or not they like or might be allergic to it? If you don't like a game/AVN it's pretty stupid to waste money supporting it's creation.