Cheap games Piracy and Amiga App store

[runequester]

Piracy rates for PC games are something like 90% on a good day, so once sales drop off (which is within a couple of weeks) they ditch the price to hope to get a few more people to go out and buy it late.

If its a title that earns longevity, like Diablo, it'll be in "greatest hits" boxes at walmart for a long time

[runequester]

Piracy rates are pretty meaningless really.  Everyone who buys a game actually plays it, while the majority of pirated software either gets played very briefly or never gets installed to begin with.
As far as prices go, PC games have only gotten more expensive if you ignore inflation, and console games are cheaper than ever.

Right, but even if 8 of 10 people who torrent Call of Duty black ops or whatever just end up having it sit on their hard drive, there's still 2 people who play it, and didn't pay for it.

What gets me going is the snivelling midgets who will loudly proclaim that they are "boycotting" a game because of some imagined slight of the developers. Except boycott means torrent the game and play it for free.