alot of complaints on Crysis warhead about drm

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Galaki said:

saibotex said:
Long live Piracy then :D

Seriously, why hassle your consumers, decision making morons

 

They aren't morons at all. Limitations put on the buyers means more sales to them.

Something like this. You buy a sound track and really like 1 of them tunes and want to put it into your celphone for ring tone. They'll sell you the ring tone for another 2 bucks. So, you're paying twice for the same product, that is.

Another is the resale market. The longer the product stay alive, the less they can sell. So, by making your purchase die over time faster than it should, they could resell the same item since they don't have to compete with the second hand market.

A lot of these reasons look very very good on paper. Excessive use could backfire. See Spore on Amazon.

DRM, on the surface, looks to be use for combatting piracy. That never worked and never will. They know it but using that as an excuse anyway.

The real reason for DRM is to sell as much as they could. If they can make you buy the same product 10 times, they sure as well will. And that is why a lot of people are upset.

 

And they would have gotten away with it, if it weren't for those meddling file sharers!