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"Andrew Rybenkov" <aryb...@gmail.com> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

>Before it was
>"Steam is a place where you buy games you will not play" :))
>But now, with trading cards presentation, it is
>"Steam is a place where they pay you for your gaming" :))
>
>Like I, at last, began to play "Call of Juarez", got 3 cards,
>sold them in no time, and overall got 150% of price I paid for the game.
>
>IMHO, this feature is serious blow to pirates, much more effective than
>all those stupid laws and restrictions.

Pretty much what I've said all along;  You don't treat everyone like a
thief by putting intrusive security schemes on the games that the
pirates defeat in no time anyway, you reward purchasers with a little
extra.

Make them _want_ to buy it.

Really they have only themselves to blame - crap games at very high
retail prices and they long ago stopped including the basic stuff with
the games - REAL MANUALS for one - when all they give you is a
half-assed manual on .pdf, there's no barrier to copying.

When there's a 100+ page manual you need, well that's a bit harder to
copy.  Sure the pirates can scan it (assuming it's not hard to scan) and
make a pdf, but that's actually work.

$60, 100 hour games in Game _boxes_ full of discs, manuals, cloth maps,
posters and other stuff to $60, 10 hour games in dvd cases with a disc
and an install guide.
Give far less at the same price and make it easier to distribute
digitally - gee I wonder why copying increased?

Xocyll