| Zucas said: Either ignorance is abroad or you simply think you bullshit well. That makes no sense and if you understood what you were saying you'd see why it makes no sense. The market has never competed with piracy which alreayd makes that look like heresy. Not to mention they don't have to. The FACT of the matter is that piracy causes publishers to up the security either on their disks or within the game which ultimately costs more money. And they also have to spend more time and money stopping piracy which we ultimately feel in video game prices. Competition affects prices within the market not from some punk kids who want something for free and then sell it. That doesn't cause the inflation of prices just the other things I mentioned. If piracy wasn't here then they'd spend less money on all those things meaning they can compete with the other publishers and or retailers for lower prices within that medium instead of one with piracy.
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The fact of the matter is that game prices have increased because of higher development costs combined with the fact that tried-and-true games(Madden, Halo, MGS4, GTAIV) aren't reaching new audiences.
DRM has proven to only hurt people who actually buy a copy of the game in which it is installed. *Starforce? SecureRom? Sony's rootkits? Hello!* Ironically, DRM has probably caused devs to lose sales because people who would have normally bought it might turn to P2P to get a copy that doesn't have any DRM in it so that they won't be hassled by it.
Consoles owned: Saturn, Dreamcast, PS1, PS2, PSP, DS, PS3
