Oh for god's sake. Perhaps some console gamers just happen to hold down real jobs and have lives away from the crosshair, so we don't want to spend all out time reinstalling Direct X, working out how to bypass SecureRom yet again, and upgrading our graphics card just to relax for an hour in the evening now and then.
Childish antagonism aside, C&C 3 was the last game I will ever buy for PC I suspect. The pain of getting it to work in the first place was just too much, followed by discovering EA had successfully raped the franchise into a shell of its former self anyway. A £150 box under the TV is just so much less hassle, for me. And I will miss really playable RTSs.
(Consider troll fed)
Erm, is anyone saying it is or isn't? This isn't a debate about the ethics of software copyright, this is a question about making a sensible decision to safeguard career / legal compliance. So, yeah, I'd say troll/flamebait was fair enough.
If it makes you feel better, as someone who makes a living writing code my personal view is that in both cases there is probably some justification for copyright as an entity, but that most legislation currently comes down too heavily in favour of the 'rights' holder. That applies equally to software and music. I think that's pretty much the prevailing view around here, give or take.
"All the people are so happy now, their heads are caving in. I'm glad they are a snowman with protective rubber skin" -- They Might Be Giants