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Aren't they doing relatively well against piracy? I remember pirate psx games were absolutely rampant, but nowadays it seems most people I now just buy the game

by Tycho 15y ago

Aren't they doing relatively well against piracy? I remember pirate psx games were absolutely rampant, but nowadays it seems most people I now just buy the games. Second hand games market is probably more of a problem. I guess the best way is to make online content delivery coupled with the physical product the norm for games products. That gives vendors a chance to make piracy more trouble than it's worth. But there maybe are changes to law that can be made too.

teamonkey 15y ago
It exists but I don't think it's as bad as previous consoles. Several things could be at work. 1) The anti-piracy systems in the consoles are more advanced; got cracked later than before. 2) Online is more prevalent and it's much harder to play online with a pirated copy; getting your online account banned for piracy is punishing due to trophies/gamerscore. This is definitely the way that the games industry is heading, with a really strong push towards adding online value, DLC and IAP to even single-player games. 3) Games are usually not region locked and worldwide releases are more common: one of the major reasons to chip a console was to play import games, which would then allow you to play all those cheap knock-offs.