Pirate disease

Do you download (full) games for free? Then you might be a pirate. This is a contagious disease which spreads fast through the use of the internet and through the air. If you think you are infected or know someone who maybe infected, then go out and buy a few games. Keep doing this until you no longer download games. Please note, if you live in a country like India then there is no cure for you yet. You're local developers are working hard to make craptacular games that will hopefully cure you from the pirate disease.

I really like what Apple has done to save the music industry, no longer do i have to buy a full CD with songs that i don't want. Why is it that the games industry doesn't do the same? I mean, not everyone wants to play the multiplayer mode which has been implemented into the game. Why isn't there an option where one can just buy either the single player or multiplayer versions of the game? That would lower the price of games, right?

In India (or other countries where you get paid peanuts) games still retail at a price equivalent to £40! WHY?! When GTA4 came out for the PC in India it sold for Rs 400, that's around £5. That was a smart move. Unfortunately, people who had already caught the pirate disease still went out and bought a pirate copy for around the same price. If games are priced at a fair price in these countries then eventually more people will buy a real copy.