Piracy in the gaming industry: Am I the only one seeing a pattern here?

[Isengard]

That's cute. It's fine to vote with your wallet. But resorting to pirating the game and essentially getting the experience for "free" isn't really helping your cause.

If you want to make this "stand", then here's a tip : Don't buy the game and don't play it. Simple.

I find it f***ing amusing that PC gamers are bitching about game prices. Your games are half the price of those on consoles. If you forked out less cash on your state of the art video cards and goddamn pimped out "rigs" you might actually have some money available to buy games.

You are just a cheap, selfish, presumptuous, self-important, greedy little brat.

You aren't a gamer if you pirate.

You're generalizing a little there. PC games are most definitely not half the price, they are typically 30% cheaper than on console and considering they don't have to pay royalties for PC games it makes sense. However there are quite a few that are even more expensive, like MW2 and Dark Void, that cost R500 a piece, not exactly a huge saving if you ask me. I hardly see PC gamers complain about the R400 price tag, it's quite a pair price, but when we complain about R500 we have valid complaints, simple.