WHat Constitutes "Piracy"?

[showler]

Again, DRM is not meant to prevent piracy entirely. It's meant to convince "enough" people to buy the game. There comes a time where you are putting more money into DRM then it is saving you in lost income.

 

And different companies have different limits. Bethesda goes pretty light. Others want to install software that needs to validate your game every single time you start it. Others go really nuts. It's always been that way.

[Ethreon]

The only thing DRM does is inconvenience the legitimate buyers, be it always-online, Denuvo or other such tech. Pirate users will bypass said roadblocks by using the cracked copy that doesn't contain all the anti-tamper legitimate users meet. The claims that piracy is some major issue was always bull, and it's only a ploy used by higher execs to push their ability to control the products we acquire. Steam proved quite sufficiently that piracy is mainly a service and accessibility issue - offer your customers easy ways to acquire and maintain a game library and they will gladly pay for the convenience the service offers.

[Russia2012]

How do you pirate games that you can already just buy and then install on as many computers as you want since that's the main point of GoG games?

What about if you owned a copy of the game and still have the keycodes. However you simply downloaded a copy of the game? I have the keycodes for Battle for Middle Earth 2 and its counterpart Rise of the witchking. It is virtually impossible to find hard copies of that game because EA does not have the licences to sell it. It is also a pretty old game and i believe it came out before steam.

[Russia2012]

don't a majority of those who pirate games eventually buy them? If a new game comes out and you want to know whether you like it you might download it, try it out and then buy it 30 days later or else delete it. Then the game is more like a demo than pirated software. I am not trying to defend piracy as one should not steal.

[showler]

don't a majority of those who pirate games eventually buy them? If a new game comes out and you want to know whether you like it you might download it, try it out and then buy it 30 days later or else delete it. Then the game is more like a demo than pirated software. I am not trying to defend piracy as one should not steal.

No. That's a complete load of bull that pirates try to use to justify their theft. The vast majority of players will only play the vast majority of games once or twice, so if they pirate it they will never buy it.

[Deleted120957248User]

Pretty much what Showler said. No chance they will buy it if they can get it functional for free. The one who seeks out Pirate copies simply doesn't care of buying the game or not. They just want it, doesn't matter to them how they'll get it. The ones who want an up to date Game with DLCs will simply buy it, or wait for a Pirated package with all its drawbacks of being unable to be updated if necessary.

Edited November 27, 2021 by Guest