True. back in teh days, in the era of 56k modems the only way to play a game was to buy a copy of a cracked version from one of the numerous vendors. thing is, in some cities, I've seen it, they still sell such copies of games, downloaded from sites, for the game's full price the only way to buy a real copy of a game is to order it overseas. Steam helps too, but a lot of people don't even know of it's existence.