I read an article relating to piracy, and from the comments I learned that in Brazil, a game can usually cost around ($150..) half of how much a family makes in a month, ($300). I knew games and consoles were expensive some places, just not _that_ expensive, (consoles costing up to $1200 in some areas). :o/

Well at least a couple of people aren't being totally retarded about dealing with piracy (with that indie dev doing his ask the pirates thing the other day) but I still think Moore is looking at the problem wrong. There is still this focus on "Make it harder to pirate". This just doesn't work. People will always get their fix for free if they want. There are private World of Warcraft servers out there for fucks sake!

What these people need to do is start asking how they can make people want to buy their product instead of failing miserably at making them buy it.

Good quality, low prices, and destruction of the internet. That's how you stop piracy.

I think Peter Moore has the right idea. I think more developers have to offer incentives for gamers to buy more than pirate.

PC and home console games are the real problem, but the areas that the industry need to seriously address first, that of homebrew is vital that they tackle. Instead the gtames industry as a whole badly ignores this area.

Big mistake, as these are the very people they should be keeping onside, offering support in their homebrew endeavors, before they take the darker route of piracy, with their skills.

So long as the ignorance of homebrew talent persists, a large part of piracy will continue to grow.

Something I'd like to see happen are the following:

1: For the games industry to accept and acknowledge that many gamers want to import games.

2: For the games industry to also accept and acknowledge some gamers want tp create their own games and aps, for conoles and PCs, but are blocked and detered from doing so, because they ''are not established rich developers etc''. Nintendo and the DS homebrew scene or Sony and the PSP homebrew scene are good examples of this. Both ignore and shun the homebrew scene instead of embracing their talent and getting them onside.

Such cockblocking only helps make industry pirates run rampant. Make consoles and PCs more open source while embracing the talent outside of XNA, PSN and Wiiware, and things will get better.

Piracy will always be about though, basicly because games are a leisure activity and not every country is able to afford what many of us richer nations enjoy. The industry must also acknowledge this fact.

@Timmeh
You're absolutely right about the concept of creating something the customer wants to pay money for, but I think that's what Moore actually tried to say. It's PR speech, after all, so we'd need a professional interpreter/astrologist to be sure.

@all the latinos (no offence):
I perfectly understand your reasoning, and I don't see anything wrong in your pirating. If you can't get the games at in a reasonable way legally, they aren't losing any profit anyway.

Also, I get the issue of simply not being able to buy certain games. GeoW and Dead Rising I had to import, as I live in Star Trek Nazi Episode Tribute Land, aka Germany. But if I had a viable PC to play games on, and not just this white toaster, I'd probably just get my games from the interblags like everybody else over here.

TrailerParkJesus: Destroying the internets won't stop piracy. It existed well before the Internet. That will only give rise to the true pirates, you know, those who make copies of games and sell them on the cheap.