I like how in the sins developer interview hes talking about how they didn't copy protect their games because it bothers the people who buy them, and wow he is right on the money there. As a man who has pirated a few games (I feel not the need, nor the desire to rationalize my behavior) most of them old, a few new ones, it is not a matter of if the copy protection is broken, but when. Will it be a week or a few months? Take a look at the modded xbox and playstation consoles, that takes much more effort than any pc pirating. The people who are going to pirate your game, are going to pirate your game, whether or not you try to stop them. Considering getting your software protected would undoubtedly cost money, they probably made a wise dicision, at least their success seems to suggest they did. If anything pirating will not kill the gaming industry, but push it online, as online games seem to be the only ones with decent (not perfect) protection. All the games I've gotten recently I paid for as they were online games. Even if all the developers move to the console, as I've heard claimed a few times, its still fairly easy to emulate console games on your computer, or mod your console to play pirated versions. I actually bought TQ twice because I lost my copy the first time. There are still enough people buying games to make them profitable and as long as they are proffitable companies will continue to make them. Even in russia were pirating is rampant, as claimed in the afforementioned developer interview, people still buy games when they are priced cheap, even when they can get them for free. Also the sins developer kept refering to hardcore games as games that only brand new graphics cards can run, I always thought hardcore games were the non mainstream gameplay over glitter games. My favorite game ever just so happens to be free to download, legally as well, its ascii if you know what that is and you can get it here
http://www.adom.de/ Now that is a hardcore game, how many games like this do you see being published eh?