The renting industry is the wide open ba ...

Its a well known fact in SW that net piracy is being used as one of strongest points of bashing PC as a gaming platform....What the console fanboys dont realise is that the policing of the net and the counter piracy legislation are on the rise....And thats espessially in the richer western world....aka EU/USA where people actually have the cash to buy the products if they are unable to download them....Whilst in the rest of the world people wouldnt have bought the products anyway even without piracy....Thus piracy will diminish in the western world and its already in decline in USA....However consoles as a platform currently dont even require an internet connection to have access to dirt cheap games....the renting industry provides it...And most alarmingly there are 0 chances to be caught.... The renting industry is the wide open ba ...
Then maybe devs and publishers should stop supplying rental copies.The renting industry is the wide open ba ...
[QUOTE=''-DrRobotnik-'']Then maybe devs and publishers should stop supplying rental copies.[/QUOTE] And second hand sales will die? Thats a huge blow to the overall economy to kill an entire sector....but it may happen...
Piracy isn't diminishing, it seems to be increading on the 360
Most people who rent games a lot, like myself (Lovefilm/Netflix/those kinds of sites FTW) do also buy games, I usually only rent games that are old-ish that I haven't played, and that if I did buy, I'd get a used copy anyway.
Except you fail to realize that there's more to the renting industry than Blockbuster picking up a couple thousand copies of a game. Go take a gander that the back page of any game manual and you'll likely see something along these lines (from Mass Effect):Unauthorized copying, reverse engineering, transmission, public performance, RENTAL, pay for play, or circumvention of copy protection is strictly prohibited. So in order to rent games a store must have authorization from the publisher, and that assuredly costs more than a couple of bucks.