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Publishers face 20% game revenue reduction if Denuvo DRM is cracked quickly, according to new study (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] slimerancher@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not many companies release this number, the only one I remember is of World of Goo, which is pretty old now. They mentioned that there was about 90% piracy rate for their game.

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How would they even know?

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You can get a floor of an estimate if people don't remove stuff that phones home.

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Only if the part phoning home does send some sort of unique id.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Source IP.

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Between NAT, CGNAT and the same instance checking in more than once that is not a very reliable way to count anything.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

You asked how they could tell and I'm giving a best guess. I'm not saying it's a perfect approach.