I buy all of my stuff (of course I'd probably say that regardless), but it's become so commonplace and accepted that in the last weeks, 2 different people suggested it to me.



Firstly my brother wanted to upgrade to Vista, "can you hop online and download it for me?". Sure, he's an older brother, no shock there.



What shocked me is when I went to buy Crysis. My MOTHER suggested "wouldn't it be easier and quicker to download it?" What the hell, how does she even know about that kind of thing?



I don't know how it came about, but it really is kind of freaky.

well pc games are like music n movies, u can easily dl them.

Even though I don't pirate pc games I don't blame the ppl,but it's too bad most ppl who own crysis pirated it.PC gamers won't see another game like that untill the Xbox 720 n ps4 come out.PC gaming is dying from piracy, it'll most likely will lose its exclusives n maybe not see any multiplat titles or no good games at all.

Sure there are people that pirate PC games. I dont think its as big as all the companies make it out to be. For one how many witcher copies since release. Over 1 million copies. Those stats were taking from over a month ago. I wonder how many its sold now.



The whole crysis thing I can see though. Most people dont even know how its going to run on there system since the game take mega good hardware to run it. So they download it.



Also they complain about how many people with bad CD keys are playing there game online. Ok. Then do something about it. Dont just point it out and expect it to fix itself. If they know who has bad CD keys or whatever. Ban them or do something.



People pirate games because no tries to stop them. Its very simple to pirate anything now a days. Go to a search engine and type in torrents sites and you'll get tons and then go to one. Type on what you want and wallah. If they want them to stop pirating. Then ban people, suspend accounts, and take down torrents sites.

If you have a good modchip you can even log into Xbox live. Those guys get even more benefits from pirating a game then PC gamers do. Perhaps it's even more effective to go after pirates on live since they have their billing adresses anyway.



For those very few who think this is just another fanboy slash at the 360 crowd. The PS3 hasn't been cracked yet, so it has no piracy at this point.

True, but when all the software reports is whether or not you're stealing the product then I don't see the problem. Hell, they could include it in the actual game code if they wanted to.

Makes it seem like they just looked at the number of copies bought at the stores and looked at how many more people there are online (simple subtraction lol) although for the people who dont play online I'm not sure how they found out.

if you have a pc, 360, ps3, psp and ds we want you too buy it on all platforms!!!



allthough i see a depression coming like the one after the wall st crash and a lot of companies including game producing companies are going to go to the wall because people wont have the money to buy food never mind video games.

$50 is nothing for this kind of game. I even bought this game 3x, one for my PS3, one retail disc for my PC and gave it to my bro, and I got another one off Steam.



I really hate the fact that piracy is so rampant in this generation. I even saw my friend's brother, who is an 8-year old, trying to download all of his NDS games from the Internet. It's really sad even you kids know how to pirate stuff. And it's all these reasons why we never get to have good games these days anymore.



I hope that the PS3 won't get cracked ever so developers will opt and have persuasion to make games for at least one platform. Think about it, Xbox360, Wii, PSP, NDS, PC - all current gen except PS3 has a way to play copied games.

it first came out, Steam was aweful. Nowadays it's terrific. I think it's a perfect solution. Constantly updating and checking to make sure cheaters or thieves aren't playing, but not in a way that agrivates non-cheaters or non-thieves.



Besides, I may never have to rebuy counter-strike source again, thank goodness.

Stop trying to create FUD. Do you know how many apps collect data for various reasons? Just because something collects data doesn't make it spyware, you *****ing retard.

Yeah, no one tries to stop pirating. Publishers don't even care. They don't ban pirates or create complex registration systems in an attempt to dissuade piracy. Torrent sites are never shut down. Nope, they don't do any of that.

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