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[-] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Piracy, as always, is a service issue. Give people what they want and don't make it difficult to obtain, and don't add unnecessary shit to it, and piracy all of a sudden goes down.

Exactly. Valve's Gabe Newell explained that succinctly, and Netflix proved it with digital distribution. Piracy takes more effort than buying a game on Steam, playing one with Game Pass, or watching a Netflix show. Give me the content I want at a reasonable price and make it easy for me to get it, and piracy rates will go down.

DRM raises the barrier to getting a game. Plenty legitimate buyers have issues legally getting games, and if the DRM server goes down (e.g. game gets abandoned), people who bought it are screwed. If you remove DRM, make a good game, and make it available on a variety of stores, it'll sell well. It's not complicated.

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