if i had no money and a game is single player and i cna find it online why not? :P here illegal downloading isnt enforced heavily lol

I bought battlefield 2142 but my dvd drive couldn't run it because of the drm. Had to use a different dvd drive to run it that i had to unplug a harddrive to use. DRM fails in either instance. It doesn't stop piracy either, but it annoys the fuck out of people who do buy the game and run into trouble because of it.

I really don't see a problem with people pirating what is essentially a 5-hour game that is, at the same time, more expensive than anything else on the platform.

Less content + completely subpar in every regard isn't going to get you people's money, regardless of if piracy's a factor or not.

If Activision wants people to buy their product, they can make it not a piece of shit, really.

Rofl there will be more pirated copies than Uncharted 2's LTD

Actually it's easy to defend it since PC Gaming Revenue is outgrowing Console Gaming Revenue in 2009.

To protest what IW did to the PC gamer crowd I happily told Activision that I was mad as hell and that I'm not going to take it any more. I did my part by buying the PS3 version...

I've downloaded Dragon Age Origins through torrent first, since there was no demo, after I've played the game for a while, I've bought the PC Collectors Edition.

I don't have the time and money to waste on products that might be crap. I want to have a chance to first try the game before making the purchase. Same way I have downloaded torrents of other titles, some caught my attention and those I've bought (Mass Effect and Gears of War of are the most recent). While others did not interested me (Anno 1404, Modern Warfare 2).

You may think that's imoral or whatever crap, but it seems quiete reasonable to me.

See thats the problem with pirating this game on PC as a form of silent protest of IW boneheaded decision to turn their backs on PC gamers, the very people that made CoD popular. All IW will see when they notice the number of torrent downloads (and believe me, they'd be keeping an eye on it) will be vindication in their decision to prioritise develop to the console versions and just give PC gamers a direct 360 port.

As an ex-PC gamer, I may or may not of pirated a few PC games in the past, but if the game was great, I'd always go out and buy it to support the developers. I may or may not do the same thing with music. If the game was shite, then I wouldn't buy it. Not saying its right or acceptable, but if developers saw piracy and low game sales as a sign that the game wasn't worth buying instead of a sign that it was a good decision to take shortcuts in the games development, then I think sales would increase.

One more thing, if the game is actually good and up to the standarts that PC gamers are expecting, they will buy it.

I can illustrate that on the Dragon Age release, two of my closest friends have both downloaded the torrent version, I didn't even knew it until we spoke about it in the pub, both of them were really impresed with such a good RPG after quiete some time. Two days later I'm ordering 3 Collector's Editions for PC from the UK, since every single PC version in our country was sold out. EA Europe obviously underestimated customer interest. BTW PC vs console versions here is 3:1 sold.

But on the other hand, you have MW2, which is a PC ripoff. Do you think anyone will go and waste full price + Activision added prick bonus cost for 5 hour long campaign? No... They will download it, play the campaign or they won't bother at all. Stupid decision will cost Activision more than 50 milion USD of profit. I believe that more than 2 mil ppl will pirate it before the end of 2009. Don't screw with the PC or the PC will screw with you. And unlike console community, PC gamers can be quiete radical.

Another crazy comment coming from nowhere and with no data to back it up by our friend Shio.....

Look at EA, Activision ( minus Wow), Take2, Konami, Capcom, Ubisoft. So which one of those had PC revenue growing faster than console revenue exactly ? None..

All the big one aside Blizzard ( because their games are designed for PC and exclusives) are slowly leaving the ship...

Now sure, Indie revenue or flash games revenue may be growing but who really cares ?

Give it a few years and all that you find on the PC are MMORPGS , RTS and a few leftover PC exclusives. All the big console franchises will stop releasing PC ports...