DERPDERPDERP WHITE KNIGHTS ARE GONNA FLOOD THE SHIT OUT OF THIS THREAD SOON

hello, you can gamefly a game for a few bucks a month and on PC, really, is it that hard to scrape up 39 or 49 bucks? You are probably running a 1000.00 rig but can't support the devs?

Some just do not have a conscience, I guess. Karma will rear it's head later in life...you will be 50 years old and in need of a new liver but the one en route to your surgeon will be "downloaded" by harvesters. As you receive the bad news, it hits you like a ton of bricks...you're a prick!

Or you know, they could stop harming their legit customers with DRM and make a legal download available, I'm looking at you AC2. AC2 just asks to get pirated, because lets face it, I'm going off on a trip with my family and won't have wi-fi the whole time so I can't play it, but not with the pirated version.

The biggest problem with consoles piracy, little to no alternative for digital distribution, the music industry implimented iTunes and since have seen tremendous growth despite what they will tell you http://torrentfreak.com/ima... since steam came along PC gaming has grown but so has piracy, I believe they are helping eachother in this way, you can try out a game and actually try it out, not a demo from a part of the game that most people would deem fun, and serves as free advertisement, someone pirates the game and tells his friends it was fun they may buy it etc. Digital sales are also usually cheaper and hence you're more inclined to buy more while opening your market to a wider audience, as it's much easier to get someone to pay $100 in $20 installments than all at once.

Not about game piracy but I'd imagine it'd have the same effect: http://torrentfreak.com/is-...

So in short to combat piracy: NO DRM, Cheaper games, and legal alternatives to illegal downloading, while we disagree that piracy is doing good I think we can agree that the current methods of stopping it are not working, and instead you should compete with it.

The best form of DRM is no DRM at all. Firstly, the consumer, especially the core consumer, will think "wow a developer who cares for the end-user!" "I'll reward them with my purchase" and even if they don't actually buy the game there is a good chance they'll buy another game by that same publisher.

Secondly the consumers not going to get shafted for actually supporting the publishers and developers, the DRM isn't affecting piracy but it's affecting the end-user. There has yet to be a AAA game that hasn't had it's DRM broken. It only took 2 weeks or so to defeat Ubisoft. In fact -- I don't know why -- but in the UK Steam doesn't offer Ubisoft games with their new DRM so the ONLY way to play the Ubisoft games (AC2 etc) without going for a retail copy is to pirate it. Something is clearly wrong there.

Piracy will be alive forever there is no way around it, its like trying to stop drug trade you can make a dent but its impossible to shut down due to man power and resources.

eventually pirates always find a way through DRM
some companys should thanks pirates like Sony
the psp would be dead a long time ago, right not its on life support
thanks to all the hackers

Some people will always download their games, event if they were only a buck...the problem for people who know how these things are done, is that the only reason to go out of their way and pay for a game is to help developers. That in itself is very righteous.

I pay for my games because I like online games and I'm a legit person...but each time I buy a single player game, deep inside I know that I can get it for free very easily and probably sooner...thank god for Steam...but it's hard sometimes, especially when the game is available on torrents when it's not even out yet.