My first Amiga, A500 came with a stack of pirated games, which was good because that allowed me to get into the machine.
It wasnt that long before I was buying original AAA titles, I probably collected around 20-30 boxed originals, at about $20-50 each during the time I owned an Amiga.
Most of the pirated games I had I probably wouldn't have bought anyway so from the developers point of view I wasnt a lost sale.