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Originally Posted by Lasereth
Not really. What turns people to piracy is them knowing they can get a game for free, so they choose to get it for free instead of paying $50 for it. 10 years ago DRM was no such thing in software and people were already pirating games so they wouldn't have to buy them.
People who simply don't want to pay for something they can get free are the result of this. It's a shame that the people who actually want to buy the games are punished for it but I don't see an alternative.
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That's true, I didn't mean to imply that most pirates are doing it out of some sort of moral outrage. What I meant was that there are some people who would have paid for the game but won't because of DRM issues. A lot of pirates don't want to spend the money and many of them wouldn't buy the game even if piracy weren't an option. These companies make the mistake of assuming that every pirated game means a lost sale when in reality, a lot of pirates wouldn't buy the game no matter what. I think it would benefit the companies in the long run, they don't have to spend money on draconian copy protection measures that don't even work and customers don't have to worry copying their game to their laptop or upgrading hardware or any other of the myriad issues with DRM.