Gabe Newell about piracy, DRM...

[Scoobes]

zarx said:

Scoobes said:

Lol, just read this and was gonna post myself. I think that Valve and Gabe just "get it" when it comes to piracy and DRM. Don't fight it with all this crap that means the legitimate copy is actually inferior to the pirated copy, but make your product high value so people don't mind paying for it.

exactly lol, stuff like Ubisoft's DRM is just a waste of money that could have been used to make a better game that more people would be willing to buy. Hell the bad publicity probably lost more sales than piracy for those games lol. 

my favourite quote from the article would have to be 

"Doug Lombardi: The other thing, too, is that gamers are generally good people. If you’re making a good game and you’ve done a good job both from a quality and on the communications standpoint, they’re more than happy to give you their money. I mean, we get mail all the time. Gabe gets more mail I think directly from customers but EJ and I get a fair amount. And like, after we ship something that’s good, we get mail saying, “I just went out and bought a second copy of it, just because I liked it so much I wanted to pay you guys again.” Or, “I went and bought it from my uncle or brother,” or whatever. So that’s my take on a lot of it, just do your job and people are more than happy to pay for it."

If only more devs and publishers followed this train of thought. I hope they'll all come to realise the value of the Valve attitude to piracy, as it means everyone wins.