Infinity Ward, makers of the great and very successful Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, are simply stunned by the piracy of the PC gamer.

The community relations manager recently said he was very happy with the amount of online PC gamers playing the game, but now he's displeased with the percentage of those players that use an illegal copy or key. The title of his pice "They Wonder Why People Don't Make PC Games Any More" speaks for itself.

id Software and Epic Games last year already sounded similar when giving the reason why all their new games are released multiplatform. Surprising were also the low sales numbers of top games like Unreal Tournament III and Crysis, eventhough it's absolutely not clear how much piracy is responsible for the limited sales of these PC games.

Developers that try to protect themselves in a different, software, way against hackers, like 2K Boston with Bioshock, get tons of criticism over their head from internet gamers.

This is of course a very complex discussion for which not all data is available. We can only call out that you, gamers in heart and vains, support developers and buy the games that are worth it instead of copying them! Only that way will we be able to keep our hobby alive and get good, original games. And that's what it's all about, no?

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