This is one of those threads that really doesn't need to exist but here's my take on the whole situation. I am by no means innocent of pirating a slew of games, like most of my friends, that said the primary reason myelf and teh large majority of my firneds have done so is becaue the Gaming market has been labotomized adn nerfed into oblivion, where a "long lasting" game has maybe 40 hours of real game play, and is often a bad port from a console or soemthign designed for both simultaneously and thuse been designed for the lowest common denomintor, that being the console.

The primary reason piracy is so blatantly commonplaceis that because PC games are targeted at the same audience as cosnole gamers that games are pieces substandard fecal matter and not worth the $70 shelf prices. Once a title comes along that is worth the sticker price we as a group usually purchase iten masse. If a game has easily 100+ hours of gameplay, good humour, in depth gameplay and varied yet smooth control schemes then it will sell in numbers that truly make the piracy irrelivent.

Lesson make a game worthwhile paying for and it will sell, but don't waste time making dumbed down games that are easily played on consoles.