games really are not that expensive...

[Vrach]

Might wanna change your title to "old games are not that expensive..."

 

[incal11]

Piracy only hurts everyone. Many pirates use the price to justify their actions, but it sends the wrong message. It tells game companies that their product is so in demand that people are willing to steal it. It simultaneously reinforces the current business model and galvanizes companies to pursue actions that raise the cost of games -- copy protection, online multiplayer with registration, and legal action.

Troll detected.
Anyway, it's already been argued to death that copy protection and online checks are actually meant to fight the second hand market. Otherwise I can understand the mindset of a businessman to an extend, but that does not justify the short-sighted and counter productive decisions. If the system doesn't allow for any other line of though then it's only natural for it to crash down. The ones clinging to that system will be hurt, but they will be the only ones and it will be their fault.

The only way to send the right message is to abstain altogether. In other words, an old fashioned boycottOnly when games fail and the industry can't scapegoat piracy or used games will it look inward and change.

The suits in major companies will always scapegoat file sharing and/or used games for their failures else they'd have to admit they made mistakes (bad career move in a super competitive system).