Elicences are the way of the future, no one yet has managed to crack Theatre of War's eLicence procedure and my guess is the PC Gaming industry has taken note.
Ironically "Sins of a Solar Empire" was released as a torrent it is rumoured by the company themselves to boost sales. A ploy that seems to have worked. All they did was make online almost impossible and updating the game via patches hard without buying the game.
Piracy is here to stay unfortunately and it has helped increase the prices of games as a whole.
Maybe the solution is to make games cheaper. lets face it who would bother buying a pirated game if it was only a few dollars to buy the real thing.
Game manuals and boxes that were works of art have been replaced by pdf's and movie DVD boxes yet game prices skyrocket higher and higher and the executives wonder why they make no money? Sell it for less and people will not buy pirated goods.
I know it is not that simple, but neither is some executive moaning about the fall of a software house and blaming it on piracy.
The game was an old fashioned hack and slash rpg using ideas stolen from a thousand such rpg's like diablo that filled a void in the market.
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