Comment on Pragmata surpasses 1m copies sold in just two days

• Viceversa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It stops them for a certain time though. For a time long enough to be economically justifiable.

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  • nullroot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    As far as I know piracy has never been correlated with a loss of profit from a company, in fact I believe studies have shown piracy boosts visibility and actually slightly positively affects sales.

    My understanding is that those who would pirate the game are unlikely to buy the game regardless and those who would buy the game are likely to follow the path of least resistance, eg buying the game from the store.

    Also denuvo is very hacked and many of the games released with it now have day 1 cracks.

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    • Viceversa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      My understanding is that those who would pirate the game are unlikely to buy the game regardless and those who would buy the game are likely to follow the path of least resistance, eg buying the game from the store.

      Why do developers pay for Denuvo then?

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      • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I can’t think of any reason why Capitalist corporations would actively block people from owning or controlling the things they purchase. Does anyone else have an idea?

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      • nullroot@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Ill conceived notions and fear tactics. How else do you implement a useless technology? You convince people it’s necessary.

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  • EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It does not. Denuvo is often cracked within hours.

    And, I repeat, piracy is the cause of Denuvo.

    It’s also often the cause of piracy. If your two options are 1. Spend a bunch of money for a worse experience or 2. Spend 0 money for a better experience, there’s no practical reason to choose option 1.

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    • Viceversa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Denuvo is often cracked within hours.

      Very recently - maybe.

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      • EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Very recently - maybe.

        No for several years now. There was a stint of a year or two where cracks took a little longer, but truth be told that was around when COVID happened and there were just fewer big ticket games for people to put effort into it. These days the only o thing protecting games from piracy isn’t Denuvo, it’s the lack of interest of scene groups in doing the cracking.

        And what was first?

        For an increasing number of people, Denuvo. With the hardware crisis and all, people aren’t upgrading hardware as much as they used to. People have to do more with less. Games with Denuvo removed run better on the same hardware, so people who have had no financial interest in pirating have turned to it as a means of making their games run better.

        We’ve seen this all before with streaming. When Netflix got big, tv/movie piracy nearly died out because it was so convenient to pay for streaming.

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