Comment by scotty79

> They don't because too many people pirate games to make that a viable business.

Piracy is what makes games a viable business. Even now marketing budget for a game can exceed development costs. Each pirated copy is not a lost sale. It's marketing brain worm implanted in a person that you didn't have to pay for.

The fact that most pirated games become bestsellers is not an accident. And it's not the other way around.

It's the same thing as with Windows. It wouldn't be most used and best selling operating system if it wasn't amply pirated.

Apple, to have anyone use a copy of their OS, has to bundle a device with it. And Linux has to give it all for free to buy its mindshare. Piracy makes Windows business model viable.