Pretty much all of them. The only ones I don't are whats called abandonware or games which for some reason cannot be easily found at retail/etail in my country.

Microsoft can't prevent piracy of Windows itself, there's no way in hell they could ever implement a system to prevent PC game piracy.

Ironically, DRM has probably increased piracy, by a lot. I know after having my legit store bought copy of Spore hate me and think I was pirating it, I said screw it and headed to the Pirate Bay, and actually pirated a copy of it.

I find it ironic that my legit copy thought I was pirating it, but my pirated copy thought it was legit.

I'm not sure there really is a solution to PC piracy. About the best they can do is to make legit copies run easy enough, as not to encourage people to pirate it to get a better copy.

But Squill, arent your friends and classmates making you feel like a 'dumb fool' when you tell'em you pay for PC games? ('tis what would happen to me here in Sweden because pretty much all PC gamers over here are huge pirates)

Why are you buying games, when download is so easy?

(im not critizising at all, im just interested to hear your honest answers and how you reason)

Lets see, Age of Empires 2/3 are online games for me. Civilization IV is an online game as well for me. I don't buy that many games but I will play them for years. On console I don't buy that many games I just rent them and I often wait till the price is low or theres an expansion in the case of strategy games. Even if I wanted to pirate a tonne of games really there aren't that many I would want to anyway and its simply easier to buy them and share them with my friends. Also theres the fact that if I dont support my favourite developers I simply won't get as many games from them. I don't care what other people do, its just my personal principle.

Most of those games are pretty old, they represent like 15 years of PC games purchases..

Thats an average of 6 per year in 20 years of PC gaming. Considering that many of those games I got in compilation packs with 4-5 different PC games and many others were gifts from friends who didn't use them anymore its probably no more than 3-4 per year actual purchases.

Ahh yes people buy so many X360 games that half the x-boxes i see in the second hand market have custom firmware flashed :)

And also Squill you failed with first paragraph when you mention HDCP - how many people have full HDCP chain in the pc ? And how much of that content that was protected with it didn't make it's way to torrents ?

Oh yes and by the time video card adoption makes even 20-30% of people have those new video cards wonders it will be years.  And if you make game DX11 only in initial time you will be as "succesfull" as Halo 2 pc version.

What you need is much simpler:

- simultaneous worldwide releses - if you force gamers in country x to wait two months more becouse their version is delayed don't expect them to wait and then buy those games in masses.

- localized versions with prices adequate to local market - very simple 50$ in USA is much diffrent than 50$ in East Europe/Asia/Africa

- good selection of cheap classics - in Poland you have games with multiple price categories - first they start at 30 euro , then after 6-18 months go into 15 euro price range then to 10/8 and finish in 5 euro series. So i can go and buy Planescape Torment in the shop for 5 euros or whole collection of icewind dale etc. Cheap games requiring very low end hardware is great way of making poorer people into clients who would otherwise resort to pirating.

- cheap DDL services where you can buy game even easier than pirating.

How about Steam? It seems like a good way to stop piracy.

Yeah now that I think of it... there's a very high proportion of old games in your library - games from the pre-broadband era - but very few new games...

I wonder why you have 'left' PC gaming lol...!