This thread has covered this same topic quite extensively and it's worrying to see that avid gamers, who take pride in owning the original disks of games are pushed to the verge where piracy is a very real alternative.

http://mygaming.co.za/forum/showthread.php?t=460

The question we need to ask ourselves, have we become spoiled with the quality of games? And do we undervalue the time and work put into games by developers?