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The problem that some people are not seeing is that Steam and Origin actually own the digital copies of the games you buy, and can do whatever they please with them at any given time. Honestly I think digital copies will be the way to go sooner or later, specially now that console games require installs instead of just "stick it in and play", but they both have their ups and downs.
what i really find amusing is that piracy has existed since pretty much forever, do they actually think they'll get rid of it? i get blaming piracy as a scapegoat for bad sales and whatever, but actually buying into the bullshit is utterly stupid.
The only DRM that actually works that I have seen is FADE
[QUOTE=milkandcooki;40829775]"execute everybody who pirates games"[/QUOTE] With the "guilty until proven innocent" approach the US justice system is taking these days? How about no.
[QUOTE=hypno-toad;40840042]Oh no, there's under 10,000 people pirating these games off of one of the most popular torrent trackers in the world :suicide: I'll phone these developers and tell them to shut down, there's no way they can recoup these losses! The [I]millions[/I] of sales they make are nothing compared to that 8000 people; many of whom are probably just pirating the game to try it out/test their systems.[/QUOTE] 8,000 at the moment... not 8,000 in total.
[QUOTE=hypno-toad;40840042]Oh no, there's under 10,000 people pirating these games off of one of the most popular torrent trackers in the world :suicide:[/QUOTE] 10,000 people right at this instant. In total about 4,000 leechers at this snapshot. If each torrent takes about two hours on average and that level of activity persists, then that means that in just [i]one week[/i] of that level of activity there will be 336,000 unique downloads. That's more than many games sell in a year. [QUOTE=hypno-toad;40840042]many of whom are probably just pirating the game to try it out/test their systems.[/QUOTE] Are you really trying to say most people pirate to test their system with the game? Really?
[QUOTE=danharibo;40840018]Copy game folder to disk, travel to friends house, copy game folder to hard drive, sign into steam. There is nothing stopping a "plug and play" experience on something that isn't a console.[/QUOTE] Because that's convenient. That is the advantage that consoles have - being convenient. If I want to play a game over at a friends place I can just pick up the CD go to theirs and throw it in the console. Not mess around copying game folder to disk then copying from said disk to their computer to sign in to steam [I]if[/I] they have steam installed already, otherwise install steam to delete the game folder when I'm done.
sometimes im having a good time but then i remember there are people pirating videogames and i break down and start crying uncontrollably.
[QUOTE=Falchion;40851338]sometimes im having a good time but then i remember there are people pirating videogames and i break down and start crying uncontrollably.[/QUOTE] Once, I saw a guy on ebay selling his old n64 games and I just felt so bad for Nintendo, I went into a spiral of depression and lost my job and my wife left me and took custody of my son.
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