Really good opinion piece on PC piracy

[Ail]

Chemical said:

Ail said:
People that says piracy has no cost are really blind.

Do you think the people currently working to fight it or busy trying to implement DRM instead of working on more game features are working for free ?


Botttom line is you will always find a lot of people advocating piracy isn't wrong because they do it and won't admit to do something wrong...

 

Sins of a Solar Empire does not have any DRM and amazingly enough their game sold very well. And trust me DRM ENCOURAGES piracy, I recommend reading some of the reactions when people realized that you need to activate Mass Effect online every 10 days or limited installs in Bioshock or Spore online activations. DRM's are not tools to prevent piracy, they are tools to control the consumers and that's why a lot of companies want the PC to die since consoles provide a much controllable experience.

That's what people pirating games would have you believe...

Personally as a customer I have no issue with DRM...

A lot of the posts reacting to Mass Effect possible DRM were actually laughable....( I'm going on a desert island with no internet and won't be able to play Mass Effect due to the online activation ...gimme a break...)

Your argument about currently pirating games because you can't find them anywhere is poor. You can in all likelyhood download those old games from steam or from the publisher website....