So it's not a service issue, it might just be for an undefined subset cohort?
And those are and were reactive services to rampant out of control mainstream piracy. Offering wares for very low prices vs getting no revenue at all was the only choice they had left.
The actual reality is that piracy is and always has been largely a security issue. People will steal software for free if it's easy, and do it less if it's harder. If you spend and do enough on security, you can minimise it. Some efforts are more or less intrusive, and some more or less successful, but they're all about security.
Which publisher/developer has gone with the security approach and managed to prevent any piracy at all?
It doesn't seem like it's working
It doesn't seem like it's ever worked, since there are emulators and ROMs for pretty much every system ever floating around on the internet
Also music and TV piracy did fall when it was more hassle to pirate than to pay for them, as did PC gaming piracy when Steam became prominent, you can't just hand wave those away because some people will always pirate no matter what
Yes you can pay huge sums for old carts/discs and set up a CRT TV and buy an old system, but that's a hundred times more of a ball ache than downloading the game, and that's the problem that's not being addressed
No one should pirate and no one is entitled to free games, but people
will pirate if the alternative is jump through a ton of hoops. It sucks, but that's the way it is
