News Valve: "Pirates are under-served customers"

Now you see, this is why game developers should also be publishers, they're not idiots in most cases since you generally have to be quite clever to develop a game good game.

 

i have done that to... the games i have on my buy list include COD2, COD4, UT3 (look at sig to understand why).... and that's about it... i think i am going to get something more, but at this time i have very few cash to burn...

 

i would say valve are right about people pirating games due to them being unavailable, i mean, i'm in that situation now. since i live the caribbean i find it highly annoying when i try to buy a game which is region restricted (mostly EA games with their server activation drm and limited installs). i actually wan't to pay for those games (i can take the drm) but i can't because i don't live in north america or i don't live in the UK ( even though i have a UK bank account). there aren't even any bloody retail stores down here either.

 

I feel your frustration. My gaming PC isn't on the net and never will be, so any game that needs on-line activation is a big no-no for me.

I must be one of the few people who has never played HL2.