I have been very very busy all this week...reading The War of The Spider Queen Book 4 and writing articles. The The War of The Spider Queen series are quite interesting in the sense that each 1 keep backstabbing each other and it's the culture of the drow.
Warning : Many Many words!Anyway, back to the topic. Why I say they sucks? Because it's the truth. No game developer gonna make a PC-exclusive title anymore, except MMO developers. Piracy is rampant. You make a good game on PC, and it's bound to get pirated in a small amount of time. Cheap game, DRM-free game, any game. Those anti-DRM activist are just losers, saying that removing DRM will lessen the piracy rate, where it just get pirated even more and faster.
As a result of this, more and more game developers just rather create their games for console, since the piracy problem is lesser on console. And the result is? No more Marvel Alliance 2, no Fable 2. Even if it's gonna release on PC and console, you have to wait a long long time to get your hands on the PC version. People would rather use their money to buy good pair of shoes, jeans or car, but too cheap to buy original games.
When you buy original game, it's not that you are rich, it's that you acknowledge the effort of the developers to make such a good game. Sometimes when I hear people saying that people who buy original game are rich people, and poor people should pirate the game, I smack my own head on such a childish statement. I know a friend of mine(not rich, by the way, and not poor either) who saves his money to buy original games, checking shops to see which 1 is the cheapest. I salute you! Just because he own PS3 doesn't mean he's rich. You can sacrifice some other part to buy the game, like eat less, or buy less clothes.
You don't have to play every game out there, just buy those you think you can enjoy the best, or the ones you can make the most out of it, like Team Fortress 2, where there's are still many players despite being released few years ago. Moreover, buying the original games with your hard-earned money, I bet you gonna play it over and over again, since you earned it after restraining yourself from buying other stuff.
If you interested in reading more about piracy, head over
here. It explain the impact of piracy in 10 pages of words. That 10 pages make me see what I'm doing is killing my favorite hobby, gaming.
I think this is my time to say goodbye to the piracy. Though I hardly expect those who read this gonna turn away from piracy anyway, as not much can be expected from HUMAN.
