2012-05-07, 01:33 PM
I think your right in some sense. With all that is available now a days, We have more options to entertain ourselves than we had in the past 5 years. I can remember when I would spend hours watching TV, while nothing interesting was on, simply because I had nothing else to do (inb4 go outside etc hurr), Now, you can pretty much watch any movie/tv show any time you want for a minimal cost. Its the fact that people are willing to pay for the convience that allows us these options. But some of the industry leaders are feeling that the progress is hurting their money piles so they decided to use "Piracy" as a launching board to attempt to take back the profits they once had. Piracy isnt as big a deal as people think it is. If you have someone pirate a game and they really enjoy it, They will be more inclined to give favorable opinions to their friends/facebookers, some of which might actually buy the game and make the developers/publishers more money. The problem I think is that Publishers think that even if 1 person pirates their game, That they assume that they are losing massive profits when in fact, pirates might help in some fashion. Valve and other companies have come up with creative ways of combatting piracy in recent years, and its been fairly effective; Yes it inconveinces some people with the amount of DRM in some games, But overall I haven't seen a game fail just because it had annoying DRM.