Because not everybody gets easy access to games, not even when steam and other services are in place. I live in venezuela, the only way i’m able to buy games is by participating in the steam market, and it’s hard to always have money to buy a 20dollar game. If i, wanted a brand new game using my hard earned money, it…

It must be nice to live in a place with fast, reliable internet connections. It must also be nice to be free of anachronistic burdens like a concept of privacy, where you are in control. I could also live without worrying about having a disagreement with your DRM platform provider and have your account locked,…

It’s a pretty useless fight anyway. Those who will pay for the game still pay for it despite existing cracks. Those who will not, still will not, and just won’t ever play it.

That’s not entirely true. Its fairly well proven to have a negative effect in that fears of piracy led directly to invasive and intrusive DRM measures which led to certain games being boycotted, and generally considered failures due to it, and large amounts of backlash from the community.

Interesting theory, but overlooks the damage that the industry does to itself in nickel and diming their product. Devalueing it and cutting it up to sell it for scraps.

It has never been proven (yet) with definitive facts that piracy has an overall positive or negative effect on the economy of any digital medium, especially not the economic success of a video game. Whether it has a real efect on the economy currently largely depends on which side of the argument you are and who did…