sean wookie said:
. If it wasn't for the DRM and not being that good me and a lot more people would of bought Spore.

I dunno man, that is a pretty weak excuse. "I only pirate games because of the publisher's anti-piracy attempts, and the games suck."

If Spore isn't good enough of a game that you'd be willing to pay for, why do you need to play it at all? Seems like if a game is worth your time, then it ought to be worth your money. If you don't feel it is a good enough of a game to pay money for, why the need to pirate it? If Spore was a pretty good game, and if it didn't have any sorts of digital rights management crap, would you have paid for it?

Kind of like saying, "All Hollywood movies suck these days, so instead of paying money to see them, I have torrent them." If they suck, why the need to do something illegal in order to see them? Why not just give them a pass? Isn't that what 99 cent rentals, netflix, and cable TV are for?

As for DVD prices, Blu-ray discs feel really expensive to me at $30 each. I have never paid more than $20, unless it was some sort of boxed set. I mean, I paid $28 for the four disc Blade Runner set on DVD brand new, I guess I buy my movies at some pretty inexpensive places, but I am pretty surprised to hear some people pay close to $30 for 2 disc DVDs when I usually get them for $16 - $20. The players will eventually get cheaper, that is a given, but what is the point in buying a cheap playing if you are paying so much more per disc.