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DOOM Eternal ships without DRM, delighting pirates everywhere
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DOOM Eternal ships without DRM, delighting pirates everywhere
In a world where DRM is everywhere, it looks like Bethesda shipped DOOM Eternal without it.
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1. So what? Make them work for it.
2. Get people who don't want to wait for a crack to play it.....to buy it. Why just hand it over for free day one because someone will crack it eventually?
because drm like denuvo end up hurting your playerbase more than anything else ...
it doesn't prevent piracy, it costs money and it is ultimately useless.
one thing it certainly does is negatively impact your computer's performance, shorten your ssd lifetime and create a ton of issues for legitimate users so much so that they end up getting the cracked version without denuvo to get rid of the problem caused by denuvo.
people who want to buy the game will buy it no matter what, people who want to pirate it will pirate it and if it takes a month to get a pirated version, they will wait for it.
for me personally, if you ship your game with denuvo i will not buy it no matter how good it is and too bad if i miss a good game because of that
Indeed so what? I mean let the legit players have issues as those with legit copies tend to have over those with cracked copies...lol
I have played quite a few games where the cracked copies worked better than the legit one simply due to it having denuvo.
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Edit: Frankly you also didn't market (advertise) it enough End Edit
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If you can make it so that it takes a while after launch before the game gets cracked, then people who want to play at launch have to buy it and cannot pirate it.
One sensible approach is to ship the game with DRM, then after the game gets cracked, offer a patch that removes the DRM. That gets you all of the benefits of DRM with only a short-term hassle to legitimate players.
but that's not true.
if you intend to buy the game you will buy it. if you intend to pirate it, you will not buy it.
the % of people intending to pirate it and buying it because the cracked version is delayed by a few days is insignificant.
Not exactly. People who absolutely have to play on day one usually pre-ordered the game anyway, so their money is in your pocket way before your game is out, and thus DRM has no real financial impact from this core group.
Otherwise as a random player you probably CBA to rush there the moment the doors open and are perfectly fine trying it out a day, week, month later. By that time, ALL the games are cracked.
Also, the most ridiculous approach is to slap DRM on an already DRM'd platform, like all those clown studios adding Denuvo on Steam games. Just shows how they value their customers...
DRM is never a sensible approach.
- It doesn't work (all games get cracked, sometimes even before official release);
- DRM hurts legitimate customers - and often continues hurting them for good, as the devs never bother removing the DRM after the initial rush;
- You have a good chance of landing the latest version of rootkit on your PC - just look at the whole SecuROM fiasco that brought these things to the front page.
As people from CDPR / GoG say: fckdrm.comIncidentally, did you know that Witcher 3 sold better in 2018 than in 2015 when it launched? Without any DRM whatsoever (on GoG) and on Steam using only Valve's VAC protection.
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i fully agree with regional pricing. People will always find a way to exploit any system, but with regional pricing publishers wont be screwing up the same people that enrich those companies buying their games.
DRM uses additional resources which can be otherwise used to run the game better, which in turn makes the system requirements for the game higher and that forces people to buy new hardware more often.
DRM is a bad practice that has been conceived solely out of greed. I commend the hackers that crack DRM games and especially Denuvo, which was advertised as unbreakable. I'm glad DOOM doesn't have DRM, but since I'm not a fan of DOOM, I won't play it either way. I bet they didn't add DRM, because it would make the game run like crap and they wanted people to be able to see nice graphics and have high FPS at the same time.
DRM is stupid and I hope it becomes unpopular and goes away, if the thought of people playing the games you bought hurts you so bad, then deal with it. xD
I've also had games I really wanted and bought them, only to see them after a while uploaded "for free", but I don't care, since they are mostly small indie games and I know my money went to help the developer improve the game, not some big conglomerate that can easily do without my money, as I never buy AAA games since they are mostly overrated crap.
You will get more people to buy after trying the game than you will lose to people that hate drm or have issues with it.
DRM has zero effect on people that will never buy the game and just torrent them anyhow.
Only thing that will stop those that will steal the games is having some type of on-line server tech to verify games. The rest are a waste of time and money.
I won't be buying the game simply because of Denuvo, and by the time they do decide to remove the malicious DRM I will have already played the game and not even bother buying it.
The same thing with Borderlands 3, not going to buy it while it has Denuvo.
It's the game company's that drive legitimate purchasers towards theft / the dark side when they can simply use "Steam Keys" or "Serial Key" just as they have many years and it will likely make more sales.
Look at "The Witcher Series & Cyber Punk 2077 (No DRM) but makes millions?
Even if I have to start a new steam account.
I just checked and, yep, India is on my VPN's list.
In other words, if you ever offer a product for a far lower price somewhere else, then people will find ways to buy it at that price.
I once drove eight hours in one day because a dealership in another state had the car I wanted to buy for 15 grand less than what local dealerships were offering. We closed the deal online and I drove in to pick it up.
If you look at the people caught, they have thousands of pirated games. Two thousand games at $60 dollars is $120,000. Do you really think that if you stopped cracking of games, that all those pirates would spend $120,000 on games?
No, they either would buy some small amount games, or not play, because most pirates don't have that amount to spend on games. If you pirate because you don't have money to buy it, then you aren't going to buy it...
Somebody has to have done the numbers. The cost and bad press of these anti-crack must outweigh the benefits.
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