I look at it this way. Devs and publishers are always going off about how its everyone elses fault cause of piracy, but most don't really do the things that encourage player to actually BUY the games.

Look at Valve or BF2/BF2142 compared to Call of Duty 4. With the first 3 games you have to have an online account married to your cd key to play, where in CoD4 you don't. That makes playing online with pirated copies SUPER easy, and frankly their own damn fault.

Thats basically the same as me leaving my front door open when I go on vacation. That would be my own stupid fault would it not? These devs that bitch and complain should look inwards. Stop blaming everyone else for your own shortcomings.

How is CoD4 "like leaving your door open", you need either a cracked server or a stolen cdkey to get on.

Its more like having your window broken or your door lock-picked.

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its easier than that, just change the server your using to a pirvate one, thats it you dont need a cd key becasu pirvate severs dont ask for one

The problem is'nt that he is not right, he is right actually. The problem is that he does'nt come with any trace of solution to that situation after making such a statement. Making such charge against the hardware manifacturers without any more substance to back up his claims is just irrevelant. This kind of speech will just vanish into the wild cause it does'nt bring up anything, while it actually hold truth, which is sad. I actually am, like many others, pirating and spending my money on hardware. But if I did'nt have the hardware, I would'nt be able to run his or other compagnies games decently. So when you think about it, is his statment bringing anything new to the situation, or chaning anything? no. I would'nt buy a game i could'nt run decently. I will tell you mister Id CEO, I pretty much like Id Software, John Carmack in particular, but you have to push the matter much more far then this if you want to make any kind of impact. The broadband ISPs have a much bigger responsability in the piracy case than the hardware manifacturers have. The hardware manifacturers actually benifits from the piracy situation, but without being really aware of it. If they are guilty of something, it is to not denounce it, and not to encourage it. Check out the ISPs first. Tne internet is a great information and communication tool right, but what is the point in having a high bandwith connection if it's not to pirate content, there is no other point. You see, there should be some kind of piracy taxe, and everyones with some kind of brain knows it. The situation with hardware manifacturers is totally different, there should be a coallission between software and hardware manifacturers to back each others of, and there is already one that have been created around last year, including the big players in the industry like Microsoft, AMD-ATI and Intel. So well...what's really the point behind that accusation of yours?