I dont condone the buying, selling, or using of back ups, unless for true legit reasons or law allows, but when are these fat heads going to get it through their heads that it doesnt work. They make something, it gets broken right away, if they were able to get away with this bs having to reactivate every 10 days, they would make a patch so that it wont ever need to revalidate at all. I mean who wins there? The bad guys, because they get to play for free, and patch it so THEY are not bugged to have to keep revalidating. Who loses, US, by inflated outrageous prices for games, that 75% of the time suck so bad they are not worth the plastic they were stamped out of, while they get richer cramming down our throats "we gotta do this to stop the pirates from stealing the games, so we'll just add another $20 to the title so you can play it".
Its no damn wonder there games are getting stolen even more today then yesterday, they keep upping the price on us to stop something that cannot be stopped. You may as well blow smoke up my ass and tell me you wanna raise my property tax, but this time its because if they do, they will be able to end the war on drugs and terror. MY BIG WHITE HAIRY ASS! They dont want that to stop just as they dont want, or cannot afford for their games NOT TO BE copied. There is too much money to be made. The pirates sell the games they got for free and make money. the feds make money from taxes to "stop" the pirates. Then the big c's make money trying to supposedly stop something that cannot be stopped, that they know but make you pay more thinking its for the greater good, the greater good in knowing you will believe them and glady pay for them to stop them damn bad people for stealing a game you had to buy out the ass for, that sucks balls. Then they need more funds and better programs they tell you, and cause us to pay even more, and more, and more, and more, till they sell 1-2 copies a year to rich kids who can afford to pay $500 a game, but to stupid to go buy an illegal copy of it.
They want to stop copying of their shit, STOP CD COPY PROTECTION AND MAKE THE FUCKING GAMES AFFORDABLE TO EVERYONE!!!! Then there wont really be a reason for anyone to steal them, other then people with a mental issue of having to own everything no matter what.
But they cannot because everyone is in bed with everyone and making money, but its going to come to a head soon, no one will want to pay out the ass for a game, nor even get a copy of it for fear of being caught having it, and then they aint going to sell shit when people buy up all the rich peoples games used for cheap. Me I will never buy a new game again, and havent in years, gamestop, gamecraze, half.com, anandtech, and ebay are my shopping stores to buy nothing but used games dirt cheap that I can afford. Granted it may be a year(s) old, but they didnt get my money and at 75 cents to $20 each game, I can afford to wait for those prices and fuck the hype, and fuck big companies. I mean just the fact they are selling like hot cakes these little, graphically challenged games on line, xbox live, for 45-$20 a pop says the people dont want to really pay out the but to play, its what they can afford to keep playing, even if it means its not halo 4 billion, or GTA4, stupid gumboy game sells millions of copies because its fun, and costs $20 VS $75. So it is proven right there, its not about stealing the games, its about them robing us and we dont want to, or cannot afford to pay the price for their games as the reason from crappy sales, and why you will see a lot of them on the newsgroups. Why should they pay $75 when for around $20 a month they can dl yours and everyone else's, or take that $20 and buy 1-6 games with it and not even think of buying yours till it hits the bargain bin, most likely used.
They need to stop, and the people need to wake up and say "FUCK YOU!", no matter what hype the media says about a new game coming out, and dont bother to buy it, send a message to them that we had enough, we want your games, we REALLY DO, but come back to earth, make it so we can afford it, and stop making crappy games, make something we like to buy. You watch how fast when one of their big sellers no one buys, or bothers to down load, comes down in price till they get the message enough is enough. These times are hard, parents cannot afford to give their kids allowance, or what they we giving was too much to make up for food, GAS, utilities, you can bet your ass if they keep making these new games with protection,a nd sell them still for high prices, they are going to lose. There wont be a message sent, because you stopped mod chips, or modding, or back up games from being sold when it all stops. You will stop people from downloading them for fear of being busted, sure, but it still wont change the fact they still wont be able to afford to buy the damn game, and still your sales will fall through the floor. No more back up or copied games, but no more sales of games either unless everyone changes. Gas, prices for food, and utility are not going to change any time soon, and will only get worse the way things are going. People are more broke then ever, the time has come where pc game prices and lose of protection and "fighting" to stop it from being copied has to change if pc, or even console gaming is to survive. its all we got left to take us out of our humdrum pathetic lives because we cannot afford to do anything else. Cant drive to the parks, the zoo, afford the drive to the amusement parks let alone the ticket once there, I mean, when is it going to stop? Movies, tv, and games is all we really got left and its being TAKEN away, not because the stuff is getting copied and sold, but people cant afford to get the real deal no more for the prices keep going up on that as well in the name of stopping the pirates. So come on, dont feed more on "its the pirates" who is doing this to us, its really you, the makes or publishers of games being the pirates for you are the ones stealing EVERYONES money from both sides. Bring back the lower prices, bring back buyers, bring back even more profits then you could of ever imagined, and we ALL win.
Thats my 2 cents