As long as there are countries that add up 25 to 30 percent of taxes
to imported games piracy will continue.
Why do Europeans pay 60 euro's for a game that cost 60 US dollars
overseas?
Simple, 10 to 15 euro's go straightly into the treasure chests of
the greedy government.
Its just like the prices of burnable empty media (DVD'Rs etc)
and any storage hardware.
If you buy burnable discs
allready 20 to 30 percent is included to ensoften the loss to software
piracy and copyright laws.
They even changed laws in Belgium and germany years ago that made prices go up to 50 percent of DVDR's (30 percent price included and 20 percent extra taxes).
When the word softwarepiracy wasnt invented yet we wer allready paying way too much for
floppies,videostorage,audiocasettes,CDR's, burners, DVDR's, harddisks, usbsticks etc....
Why?because "they" allready knew we wer not going to store just simple text and
Holliday pictures on em.
And i know from a lot of fellowgamers that still 7 out of 10 will actually buy the game
after they played the sp campaign of a copy.
Last couple of years gamers are getting more picky what game they buy.
Invent good software protection and the second magic word is "multiplayer".
Combine that with good quality,service and support and gamesellings will go up.