Videogames piracy - Why so much hate?

[Dystopia]

1. Read reviews before you buy.

There are so many biased game reviewers and so many reviews are inaccurate that I don't trust them anymore - Mainly when it comes to technical issues. I've read reviews for terrible ports that gave the game a 8 or a 9 (from 1 to 10) when the technical issues should give the game at most a score of 5. If I am unable to boot my game or play above 20 FPS even if my PC has all the recommended requirements then the review shouldn't tell me that game is great. In fact there's many games I hated or disliked over the last couple of years that got great reviews.

To give you an example, I'm a fan of Splinter Cell and the recent entry called "Blacklist" got great reviews, but when I played it I thought it was the worse Splinter Cell game ever created. The subjectivity gamers have when playing something makes reviews worthless. I need to play the demo or some random level before buying. Exceptions are made for series that I love and trust the developers - For example I'd buy a Metal Gear Solid game before buying the demo because I trust Konami, some youtube gameplay videos would suffice.


By the way, if piracy is the cause of higher prices then how can you explain that console games cost usually much more that PC games (I'm not even counting Steam!) and are less pirated? Back in my day pirating PS2 games was something no one did and everyone bought games because it was seen as unacceptable by all other gamers, and PC games were still less expensive.