some lines to bring out:

* big part of these 4.5M+ pirated copies are considered a form of trial version, or even a demo
– a fucking true, games nowadays simply doesn’t have demo, you have to buy shit in the bag

* as when the next game comes they will be hooked and they will go and buy it on day one
– pre-ordered torchlight 2, trine 2 and others the same day when it was available. well I acquired the first versions of them legally, but still the point remains

* All in all, our job is to make each of our games a must-have
– not like those lazy bastards like in music industry, make good concerts, sell t-shirts and shit, sell cd’s as advertisements to concerts, not vice versa!

* “Wow this game is really great. I spent 40-50 great hours with it and I want to have it in my collection; it would be embarrassing not to buy it.”
– I have bought lots of crap I used to play long time ago, just for nostalgic memories, they probably even don’t run on my computer

- FACTS
* people hate complication
– this is the very basic truth of consuming every kind of shit

* gamers often download all the new releases in bulk and then later on get around to checking out what they’ve gotten
– and buy if that shit is good! and next in sequel and all da fucking previous releases

* The illegal scene is pretty much about the game and the glory: who will be the first to deliver the game, who is the best and smartest cracker
– yeah, who is the biggest l33t cracker?

- FAILURES
* The technology which is supposed to protect games against illegal copying is cracked within hours of the release of every single game
* Quite often the DRM slows the game down, as the wrapper around the executable file is constantly checking if the game is being legally used or not. That is a lot the legal users have to put up with, while the illegal users who downloaded the pirated version have a clean–and way more functional!–game.
* the RIAA, in its case against LimeWire, originally estimated the losses caused by file sharers using the service as up to $75 trillion – that is, more money than exists in the world

In the past, said blocks affected Fear 3, War in the North, Mafia 2, Duke Nukem Forever, and others that I’ve not had personal experience with. All of those, eventually had the blocks removed. It took less than a week for the block to be removed from Duke Forever, but over eight months for the block to be removed from Mafia 2, even after 2K had asked Valve to stop blocking retail copies (those remained blocked for the full eight months too). RIght now, Kingdoms of Amalur Reckoning is blocked. In that case too, Steam support were telling people that no such blocks were in placed when they were specifically asked about such blocks BEFORE the game was gifted to people in Japan.