[skydhash]

> I'd also blame rampant cheating for that. It's damn expensive to keep up with pirates, but cheaters are an entirely different league

I'm not an avid gamer, but it's not hard to notice that multiplayer games nowadays means "all the player in the world". Most games don't have a local version to either play with multiple controllers or through LAN. They don't even want to allow custom groups to play with. Cheating is way easier to manage at small scale.