I don't think 'we are in crisis', and in general I think morality has improved over the last 500 years. Offering a product without DRM is a sales move, since it has been proven in the past that extensive copy-protection just generates ill will towards your company and product, and does nothing to stem piracy. Publishers…
game enthusiast are also the ones who download almost all game titles for free ^^ A game enthusiast pay 350-500+ euro for a graphic video card (Ati and Nvidia are happy!!), and owns a gamer rig of more than 1500 euro. A game enthusiast nowadays, don't pay for games beacuse they are free on the internet, and they enjoy more…
I know a higher profile pc game who have 95% piracy and it had a demo. Horrible. Oh well... Maybe if it was harder to use a pirate game or something I mean if I want to buy a game i can go 500 meters and do that or I can download a illegal copy and if I clone myself I would probably have the illegal copy up and running…
I honestly think you are wrong about that. a very small number of the people who actually think its a good game will go and buy it if they already ''have it''. Of the ones who download games illegaly, the people who dont like it is not gonna buy it, the people who do will keep using their copy as long as it works, then buy…