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The Nickel & Dime Generation
Phaethon360 sends in a piece that looks at how quickly game costs can add up these days, now that DLC, microtransactions and standalone expansions are commonplace, writing, "If you were trying to the think of the most expensive games to play, Rock Band or a monthly-fee MMORPG would come to mind. But Halo 3 is right up there, too." It's reminiscent of a recent post at IncGamers where the author tallied up how much he'd spent on World of Warcraft over the past several years, and was astonished to realize it numbered in the thousands of dollars.
The microtransaction-focused game, Gran Turismo HD: Classic will be the online-focused entrant into the GT-series
That's not Gran Turismo 5 tho, but Gran Turismo HD (which is cancelled already - the news is from 2006)
You're not wrong, but the OP didn't say anything at all about copying the game you don't want to pay for - he merely pointed out that if people (silently) stop paying for games, it'll be written off as being due to piracy, whether it is or not.
It's official. Most of you are morons.