Microsoft has to do something about the PC pirates.

[Slimebeast]

Squilliam said:

Slimebeast said:

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.

'I don't buy that many games'... really? From your profile, the PC game collection: PC (126) :
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time	Age of Empires	Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings	Age of Empires II: The Conquerors
Age of Empires III	Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties	Age of Empires III: The WarChiefs	Age of Empires: The Rise of Rome
Black & White	Black & White 2	Blacksite: Area 51	Brett
Caesar II	Caesar III	Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare	Civilization
Civilization II	Civilization III	Sid Meier's Civilization IV	Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars
Command & Conquer Renegade	Command & Conquer: Generals	Command & Conquer: Red Alert	Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2
Command & Conquer: Red Alert: The Aftermath	Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun	Commander Keen: Goodbye Galaxy	Commander Keen: Keen Dreams
Company of Heroes	Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts	Crysis	Dark Meesiah Might and Magic
Diablo	Diablo II	Diablo II: Lord of Destruction	Doom
Doom II	Doom III	Dreamfall: The Longest Journey	Duke Nukem 3D
Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project	Dune II: Battle for Arrakis	Dungeon Siege	Dungeon Siege II
Fallout	Fallout 2	Gothic II	Half-Life
Half-Life 2	Half-Life 2: Episode One	Half-Life 2: Episode Two	The Orange Box
Half-Life: Blue Shift	Half-Life: Opposing Force	Halo 2	Heart of Darkness
Heroes of Might and Magic	Heroes of Might and Magic II	Heroes of Might and Magic II: The Price of Loyalty	Heroes of Might and Magic III
Heroes of Might and Magic III: Armageddon's Blade	Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Shadow of Death	Heroes of Might and Magic IV	Heroes of Might and Magic V
Hitman: Blood Money	Hitman: Codename 47	ioi	Jagged Alliance
Master of Orion II: Battle at Antares	Master of Orion III	Max Payne	Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault	Medieval: Total War Battle Collection	Mortal Kombat 3	Neverwinter Nights
Neverwinter Nights 2	Nox	Overlord	Paradise
Prince of Persia (1989)	Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones	Prince of Persia: Warrior Within	Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Runaway: A Road Adventure	Runaway: The Dream of the Turtle	S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl	Serious Sam II
Serious Sam: The First Encounter	Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri	Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon	Silent Hill 2
Silent Hill 3	Soldier of Fortune	Space Quest I: The Sarien Encounter	Space Quest II: Vohaul's Revenge
Space Quest III: The Pirates of Pestulon	Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers	Starcraft	Starcraft Brood War
Supreme Commander	Syndicate	The Black Mirror	The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
Secret Files: Tunguska	The Witcher	Titan Quest	Titan Quest: Immortal Throne
Ultima VIII: Pagan	Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines	Warcraft: Orcs & Humans	Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness
Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal	Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness	Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos	Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War	Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Dark Crusade	Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War: Soulstorm	Wing Commander II: Vengeance of the Kilrathi
Wolfenstein 3D	World in Conflict	X-COM: Apocalypse	X-COM: Terror from the Deep
X-COM: UFO Defense	Z