whats their endgame

>>378041151
The answer is always sucker paranoid publishers out of money.

>>378041151
>Sell to publisher
>crack game
>update DRM
>sell version as superior
>rinse and repeat

cause fuck ethics

>>378042369
>paranoid publishers
It's not the publishers, or the devs. They know full well that DRM doesn't fix anything. The only ones who insist on including DRM are the shareholders, who are all 60 year old men who have never played a video game.

Making money by delaying piracy during the critical weeks post-release.

It seems to be working.

>>378042645
nah, it's this
>>378042502

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>>378042645
lol no, it fucking doesnt work, games without drm can sell beter than games with it, look witcher and hitman

>>378042869
Can, but don't have to. Without an alternative universe, we'll never know how a specific game would have done.

>>378041151
Crashing this industry...

>>378042998
that literally proves drm is useless, people buy good games, if you make pile of shit no one will buy it even if you put denuvo v100000 on it

>>378043235
The question isn't people buying anyways, or not buying anyways, due to the game quality.

The question is the share of people who will play the game if it's good, pirate it if they can, but pay if they can't.

We don't really know how many people fit these criteria.

>>378041151
crashing this industry

>>378043471
only like a third of the already small amount of downloaders are outside pirate countries like russia or brazil so the number's negligible regardless

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>>378043471
who fucking cares about pirates at this point? hitman got cracked, did it sell more after being cracked? no, thats because its a shit game, if it was good it would sell even if it dint have denuvo

>>378043717
Nice asspull

>>378043036
>>378043583
>companies protecting their intellectual property will crash the industry

holy fuck when did /v/ get so fucking commie?

>>378042642
>>378042642
this

>>378043914
>protecting their intellectual property
>when it does literally nothing for sales, possible even affects them negatively

Lmao.

>>378043914
good games dont need to protect themselfs

denuvo only work for massive AAA with massive marketing budgets to get full $$$ on the open

All the lesser games just get damaged by the bad rep and the lack of word of mouth/attention

as already said, a pirate will likely not buy regardless

>>378042645
It's not working. People are just buying from places like g2a and other sites. Also many repackers are offering offline activations now which can be a bit of nuisance but you get to save a lot of money. You can play AAA 60$ games for 1$ day one.

>>378044482
>People are just buying from places like g2a and other sites.
Those are keys that were already paid for, though. That's not lost sales.
> You can play AAA 60$ games for 1$ day one.
Sure.

COMPLETE
GLOBAL
SATURATION

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Is the crack of Nier: Automato out yet? I'm worried; Things are starting to get desperate.

Your turn.

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>>378041151
Denuvo literally dindu

>>378044930
It's been out for weeks.

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>>378045129
I know what I'm doing after work.

TY anon~

>>378041151
To go bankrupt and make you loose all your games destroying any future trust in DRM

>>378044642
antidenuvo.com/profile.php?id=76561198326210944
This is the first one came up and I'm too tired to search father. This one has 2$ price per game. If you look a bit more you can easily find 1$.
The only reason people don't use this method that much is you have to turn off internet to play the games. Otherwise you have a legit copy of the game with a legit steam account

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>>378044642
>>378045537
BTFO

>>378045537
Ah. So you basically pay to pirate. Good job.

>>378046072
doesnt matter, those are denuvo protected games for $2, you are a faggot

>>378046072
1$<<60$

>>378046072
>paying to pirate

why though? it's like you're telling me red is green.