[citation][nom]BX001[/nom]Piracy my a$$. They should make worthy products and they will have sales. Sins of a Solar Empire had no copy-protection / DRM and was top seller.If the products su*k of course people will download them instead of wasting $ on nothing.[/citation]
No offense but that's BS, it's the old rationalization of stealing games. There are tons of people who download excellent games, hacked versions, because they don't want to pay the $50 for it, aka the 5-finger discount. It has NOTHING to do with games being crap, if this was the case then these games wouldn't get hacked, downloaded and played, think about it.
On the other hand, games that do have horrible DRM which ruins consumers' PCs, they more or less deserve getting hacked because the publishers are treating the legitimate buyers as hackers and are impeding on their civil rights, so piracy in that regard does serve a rational and fair purpose.
Also, piracy serves as a great equalizer to much of the rampant price gouging, people would be more inclined to buy games and software if it didn't cost an arm and a leg. If many of these games were $10 or $20 cheaper, you'd be guaranteed that more people would be buying them, but not everyone can afford a $60 or $70 game, or application software for several hundred dollars, the greed has been out of control for a long time.