If games are so bad why pirate them? All that shows is people want more of them, so they'll make more of them in hopes some of the pirates will buy them. For a company to get the hint, you'd have to simply not play it at all outside a demo, otherwise you're telling them they made something good. Imagine how a publisher would feel about a game if it didn't sell but also wasn't pirated almost at all. What are the chances of a sequel for that? With the piracy, they'll just make another one, and add more stupid DRM. Sure, pirates don't care about DRM, but then you still get a shitty game instead of an attempt at something better.
And yes, I agree in that every download isn't a lost sale and all the piracy is killing gaming or whatever is bullshit (because not everyone thinks like the likes of you, otherwise it wouldn't be bullshit), but jeez, have some morality and common sense. If something's bad, why play it, even for free? Get the good stuff, there's tons out there, and buy them when the price is at acceptable levels rather than on day one. On the other hand, games are LUXURY ENTERTAINMENT GOODS so they can charge whatever the hell they want for them, such is life.
Usually you can play demos to see if a game is good, they're not an exact representation of the full game but then again it's dumb to see self righteous pirates download games, play them, FINISH them (or play for an x amount of time if it's multi player), and THEN deem them unworthy because they apparently hate them and they're so boring and the game sucked. Dude, by that point, you got all the hours of entertainment they were trying to sell you, without paying for it, and anything else is just lame excuses.
Edit: For every company claiming piracy makes them move to consoles there's a company that sticks to PC and have insane success. Blizzard & Valve anyone? Not to mention the likes of Stardock which don't even use DRM (since you could say Valve's Steam is effective DRM, though it's really not, for single player at least) or many (usually Eastern) European publishers like 1C growing more and more all the time. Also, piracy is just as prominent on consoles, it's merely not as measurable due to the different means (downloads from torrents are the least of it, though those also increase in time). So, really, all those "EA said so" and "other publishers said so" statements are just excuses with different motives.
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