Originally Posted by
Rishwin
Bringing the industry down?
When they limit the amount of times you can install a game, you are NOT buying it, you are RENTING it.
This has NOTHING to do with not being able to afford it, i buy games when i see that they are actually worth the price. Let me also point out that they are NOT doing this to stop people from pirating, they are doing it to stop people form RESELLING games.
I will pay for a game when i see it is worth it. Paying for spore? No way i would waste my money on that. So if i have no intention of buying it in the first place, there is NO PROBLEM with me downloading it, because they are NOT losing any sales from me - the sales were never there to begin with.
Lets say i DIDN'T download it. OK, what now? I am NOT going to buy it, so by NOT downloading it i have made a total of ZERO difference. People forget that there are MANY different types of pirates. I pirate if: a) i have no intention at all of buying the game, b) my country has only been issued with an EDITED version (eg. Fallout 3), or c) i do not feel it is worth the price.
As with the last point, when the games comes down in price or if it is on sale, i WILL buy it. I do NOT think it is appropriate for them to charge $110 for a game, no matter how good it is.