Second Take: Did Piracy Kill Iron Lore?. The developers of Titan Quest have shut down and the Creative Director of their publisher THQ thinks piracy is to blame. Should you? Watch Video: Do you agree with THQ's Michael Fitch? Can anything be done...

ever wants to debate piracy. I sure wish there were more threads dedicated to debating the piracy issue! To all those of you who say "Steam is fine, but I hate piracy", I've have several headaches with Steam and I've only been using it since early this year....

it. While there's no shortage of material for this thread, I figured I'd throw a couple more logs on the fire and see what happens. Here are two contrasting links. Michael Fitch of THQ talks about why Iron Lore Studios shut down and how rampant piracy contributed...

You can read what Ryan thinks of Iron Lore, etc., on that discussion thread. Not everyone at Tom's Games or Tom's Hardware shares my view on PC game piracy; in fact, I'm not sure anyone really does. Third, my view isn't that "piracy kills sales." My view...

downloading the games because they're free and have no intention of paying for them. But if you watch this week's Second Take video on Iron Lore's closing, you'll notice I make that point. I also say in the video that if, for example, 50 percent of the copies...