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Edited by Big Black Bear:
3/19/2013 10:00:12 PM
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DRM Hurts Companies More than Piracy
[url=http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2013/03/19/drm-hurts-companies-more-than-piracy-developer-argues/]An argument against DRM from a surprising source - a game developer[/url]
This is a hot topic with the recent SimCity problems, but I've never really considered the cost of DRM systems to the developers themselves. I think he makes a very valid point.
What do you think?
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1 ReplyFrom what I've noticed the people that pirate games usually aren't the kind of people to pay for games in the first place, which is something developers need to see. If there are 1M gamers and 500K are pirates, then the pool for selling the game is around 500K, not 1M. Another thing is that DRM has discouraged me personally from buying more games from the same developer. I bought Company of Heroes played it for a bit, then uninstalled it. A few months later I re-installed it, but the authorization code didn't work anymore and it said I was locked out due to piracy. I contacted the developers (Relic) and they asked for picture proof of ownership and dragged out the whole thing taking days to reply. I got frustrated and threw the damn disc away. -blam!- that shit, I paid them money and for them to question me and make me unable to play my own game is beyond redemption.
