That's like going to a whore house and try out one of the hooker. If you are satisfy, you paid. If you are not, you try to sneak out without getting beat up by the pimp.


The problem with gamers today is they want to play anything that is new release hence the fast-food culture. Games are not longer enjoy slowly anymore. People want everything fast and don't have the patience to wait.


On the other hand, game developer is currently control by greedy game publisher who wants to churn out nothing but same old crap (I'm looking at you, EA. Thanks for screwing Maxis and Bullfrog and Origin), which is why digital distribution service like Valve's Steam is getting the attention this day. You can find new and old classic game with it. And they are really, really cheap compare to box edition. Though I miss the box edition and its manual, but that's a different story.

Edit: Ultimate Doom is only USD 9.95 only on Steam. f***ing bargain for a damn fine classic game.

Here's a fact:
Pirates only pirate big game titles. I mean, you won't find a pirated copy of indie work. Cause they know AAA titles will be a hit once it's released. So they hitch the ride without authorization.

To combat piracy, I see there are only 2 ways: lower down the price/go back to the shareware-way, that is, release a semi-full product for the consumer to try first, if they like it, just buy it. The next way is sell the games through digital distribution (I miss those big manuals..) with full tech support i.e. patch and DLC (I don't like DLC though, to me it kills the modification capability of a game).