poop: I agree with you, but you are wrong about one thing, pirates pirate indie games and games without DRM just as much. Look at world of Goo. 90% piracy. Way to stick it to the man, pirates!
"The majority of pirates won't buy the game anyway. " are you sure? It's kind of hard to tell since we simply don't know. If people knew a game would not have a pirate version, how many would buy it then? We simply don't know that yet. "And for those pirates who do it to try games that dont have a demo available, its…
ofc they saw it coming, but there is not very much to do against attacks like that. But I think the media is extremely biased in this case. The longest wait to get into the game was approx 30 minutes, and how long do you have to wait for a game of BF:BC2 when the servers go on the fritz? Or when they went down entirely? I…
What facts can't I back up? Statistics about piracy? Also, I don't understand what is wrong with that opinion of pirates. What other reason is there to pirate? It's not like its a political statement. Sticking it to the man, etc etc. People usually list a number of reasons for pirating, most of them sound good in theory…
DRM is still stupid, instead of trying to deny pirates the focus should be on promoting sales. DLC, achievements, other incentives to play the game that pirates don't get to benefit from. Or alternatively fight poison with poison. Introduce a risk to being a pirate, because right now, there really isn't. People can safely…
Snefer: Even if coupling games with such harmful DRM is a way to stay afloat (which is debatable), it is not the only way. It's also not a very moral way, to restrict access to games to paying customers, and that's why I won't support it. I hate pirates as much as you do, but I refuse to become the victim of the battle…
Yeah, I'm not very fond of DRM myself. I'm mostly looking at this from a developers perspective, which in the long run is good for PC gamers aswell. There are alot of "if"s. We dont know the conversion rate of pirates. If the conversionrate of pirates is 10%, we will double sales on PC, if sales on PC would soar without…
Yeah, and I guess that is a question that will be properly answered when the sales-figures drop in. Time will tell I suppose. Pirates and people defending them makes me sad.
You're assuming that's all the game uses the online portion for, is to check if it's online. If it needs input back from the server, the pirate fake server would have to emulate that. That's a lot more difficult than just saying, YOU ARE ONLINE PROGRAM.