Pirates don't want to wait in queues. They don't want server disconnects. When a company makes the legitimate product worse than the free one, the market will vote—with torrents.
A top torrent for SimCity 5 included a special (a text file included with cracked games). In it, the cracker wrote: "To EA: This is what happens when you treat your customers like criminals. The pirate version works offline, runs faster, and has no queues. We are not the problem. Your DRM is." The irony was delicious. The pirated version of SimCity 5 was objectively better than the retail version. No lag. No disconnections. No "servers full" messages. The Internet Reacts Reddit and gaming forums exploded. Memes spread like wildfire. One popular image showed a pirate ship sailing past a burning EA server with the caption: "SimCity 5: Better on The Pirate Bay." Simcity 5 The Pirate Bayl
Players who had paid $60 began downloading cracked copies just to play the game they legally owned. Pirates don't want to wait in queues
