Game piracy

So because I've had quite a small disposable income for most of my life (and what I do have tends to go on upgrades for my PC) I used to pirate games a lot. I did used to buy dvds but my brother persuaded me over Christmas to start buying games in stead of dvd's as the movie industry gets plenty of money as it is whilst indie game developers need the money more. Which is fair enough.

So I've resolved not to pirate games unless I'm genuinely unsure as to whether I'll like them or not.

What does annoy me, though, is how easy it is to pirate the damn things rather than getting them legitimately. I ordered Dawn of War 2 from Play.com, it was dispatched on the 17th of this month and, nine days later, it still hasn't arrived. Reh.

So I pirated it. I bought the damn thing anyway, the disc just hasn't arrived yet.

The torrent downloaded in under eight hours, whilst I was asleep. I checked out the cracking instructions and, whilst it's slightly more complicated than the usual copy/replace the original exe file with a new one, it's won't take more than five minutes work to crack it.

This annoys me because, whilst it's play.com's fault that I haven't gotten this game legitimately but Steam should also take some of the blame for charging £12 more for the damn game than play.com are,

Pricing is supposed to be competitive, people, that's how capitalism keeps getting sold to us.

But yeah, this is just me moaning. In general, it's still easier to get games legitimately than illegally - thanks mainly to Steam, but there are odd cases like this that frustrate.