The pirates are back - Anew study from the European Union’s Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) suggest that online piracy has increased for the first time in years. In fact, piracy rates have bee…::We analyze a new study where the EUIPO suggests online piracy is on the increase within the European Union.
That shit was coming with or without TF2, even if it was the first (which I don’t know if that’s the case). WoW gold farmers proved the concept that people are willing to pay for advantages or conveniences in games (and that was just the first game I played where I saw that, I bet it wasn’t the first), and buying packages with random content was done by MTG and baseball cards before that. It was inevitable that someone would put the two together.
