Piracy is killing PC Gaming

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Piracy is rather pervasive.

Some of it makes sense, like abandonware. QME comes to mind. Old DOS games. MAME emulator ROMs. Home of the Underdogs.

Some of it is a gray area. Are the Mission Packs abandonware?

Btw, something funny I noticed. There are actually 2 links in the Quake Wiki to CheapAlert's favorite illegal Quake download package, and maybe funnier is that there is a link to that in the .

I think a couple of real problems that arise in regard to games is that companies should adjust prices of their games to a realistic level after the life cycle of the game has come to an end.

Maybe I feel that way because of how Quake drifted into the void where from 2002 to a month ago, the original Quake wasn't sold in stores (just that obscure and nearly secret link at ID's site, at an unreasonable price without so much as getting the CD because it was an instant download).

Piracy does kill games, it is one of the securities of consoles and why game developers tend to focus on those anymore (plus, like FrikaC said, consoles always work).

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