HunchBluntley: No, it won't. Piracy is not activism. The only lesson publishers have ever "learned" from people pirating their games is that they need to devise
even more restrictive/intrusive/idiotic forms of DRM.
zeroxxx: There won't be another more intrusive DRM. Always online is the worst DRM ever made and it's already there e.g Diablo 3.
LOL!
It's coming, don't you worry about that. At least with the current Steam system if it went down tomorrow people would just make cracks and hacks to play them offline. This is why the industry has every intention to push towards cloud gaming/streaming in the long term. They are starting the process of desensitizing us to the idea already. Cloud saving and streaming services, introducing it slowly and making it sounds like it's for our own good. A full move to cloud gaming can't work yet because of technology reasons, but in ten years?
This is not to fight piracy, piracy is the only thing keeping them slightly honest up to this point. Once cloud gaming is fully operational they will have full control of their products, the pricing won't go down with the death of piracy...it will go up, because they know you have no other alternative. Price fixing and collusion between the big companies will reign. GOG won't exist because it will simply be bought and raped for all it's worth, and it's fanboys sodomized. And to make sure you keep buying the new games the servers for the old ones will be on a rolling shutdown program...with the excuse that they are no longer popular enough to keep up. This is the future. This is standard corporate thinking.
So it can get worse. And if I've thought of this you can be damn certain some people wearing suits have thought of it. And the problem is, i think people are so stupid that it will come to be.
