Now I'm seriously offended. Have you EVER seen Blackadder?

Game Rager, if you dont mind me asking.. How have you managed to get -673 rep in... what.. two months? o_o were you like, spamming the forums, or insulting GOG staff members' mothers?

You need to watch the video :P

You defintally have the lowest rep ive ever seen. Almost impressive in its negitivity

Gosh. GOG lost my post.

Right, well, DRM isn't an issue for me personally. I buy most of my PC games on GOG, and my console gaming is done only on 'classic' consoles (a polite term for the previous generation). However, the few games I do buy new, I buy only after viewing youtube videos and reading reviews, perhaps talking to my friends. I think this precludes the 'I might not like it' argument for piracy, since if you have time to search a torrent, you have time to search a few youtube videos and reviews. And surely you have friends, right? :D

Secondly, if you don't like the DRM system, you can buy the game on Steam - Steam's not going away, I suspect its system is pretty much the wave of the future. Admittedly, if Steam does not have the game, you'll have to either wait for it to get it, or buy it on a console to avoid the DRM.

Thirdly, if you cannot afford to play a game, simply don't. You do not have the right to spend your free time the way you want to, you have the privilege of having free time to spend. I don't have the right to steal a helicopter and try to run down flocks of endangered buffalo with a water cannon simply because I'm bored. I'd have to pay for that right. Aaand probably bribe witnesses.

There are a variety of things to do with free time, and there are affordable options for everyone. For instance, this very site just released NWN: Diamond, which is at least 150 hours of gametime just in the included modules and has hundreds, if not thousands of hours more life in modules and online play. That's $10 for that.

And finally, 'sticking it to the man' by stealing something you'd enjoy having is a sad and somewhat silly excuse. It doesn't prove a point, it just means that you'll go to jail for a long time or pay a very big fine when found out, and people will not 'rally to your cause', they'll just hide or delete their own pirated games and shiver in terror about being discovered.

I've seen the light! By taking what I wish to please myself, I will revolt against the established authority that says people should be rewarded for their work!

Seriously. That sad little argument about not stealing anything because there's not a physical copy stolen is just plain silly, a dvd-rom takes five minutes to burn and costs perhaps a dime. You know darn well that the money's paid for the work that went into the game, not the work that went into making the copy you didn't pay for.

Uh...stockholders too, but yes, you can rationalize this away, I suppose. Look, ultimately it's your life, if you're happy, that's fine! I just prefer my entertainment to be legal and I don't like it when people rationalize things instead of just coming out and saying they do it because they want to do it.