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On Mon, 29 Jul 2013 09:38:15 -0400, Xocyll <Xoc...@kingston.net>
wrote:

>"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

Games that must be downloaded for days sometimes that cost more than
purchasing the boxed DVD.