I dont know if this had been said before but i'll say it anyways,
there's still a huge percentile of people who actually buy the games to have a hard copy of something. not just 1's and 0's. They actually like the green case, and the boxart and the booklet and whatever registration card that is included. Also, there's a huge number of people who dont even know about these things, and are far too dumb to even get to this point.
Look at the music industry, there's tons and tons of piracy issues with that, yet everytime i walk into bestbuy i see tons of people in the music asisles[sp?]
Dont for one second think the number of everyone online determines the mass of people buying stuff. no sir. we're just a small fraction of the entire people.
But! i will agree with those of you that mentioned that the xbox would've been gone by now if pirating wasn't made available last april. Or M$ would've felt like the loss wasn't so bad and just kept on producing.
* also, those of you who haven't played Mace Griffin Bounty Hunter. do it now! It was terribly underrated and i consider it the best xbox FPS, yes it does lack MP and other stuff, but fuck, it looks great, its long and hard [heh.], runs great, sounds are done well (i think it's the only professional 5.1game the rest are just mistakes) and running @ 480P [given you have an HDTV of course] is uncanny. The water effects give me an eerie halflife2 feeling.. !
i love you all, bye bye.