That’s not exactly what it’s saying. It’s specific to denuvo games which generally means AAA publishers, it’s a small sample size, and it’s about the impact DRM has on sales, not piracy. It’s not an arbitrary distinction. I’ll grant it definitely implies piracy has a net negative effect on sales but that’s not at all what it’s actually saying.
That right there says that piracy hurts gaming. A game with drm cracked in the first week can expect to lose 20% of total revenue. That’s a gigantic loss.
edible_funk@lemmy.world 3 days ago
GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world 3 days ago
That’s 100% what it’s saying though. If the drm is cracked within a week they lose 20% of their revenue……because of piracy. 20% of total revenue they miss out on because those people pirate the game instead of buying it.
edible_funk@lemmy.world 3 days ago
That’s not how data works. It doesn’t say anything but what it says. You’re making inferences, which sure fair but until there’s data specific to your inferences (there isn’t) you can’t say that. You can say denuvo cracks in the first week in the case of some 90 games resulted in up to a maximum of twenty percent loss of sales. It is an important distinction. And the massive success of DRM free titles also goes against your assertion.
GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Such a massive success of DRM free titles that every publisher is releasing all their games DRM free now, right?
No? Why not?
edible_funk@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Cyberpunk sold well. Kingdom Come Deliverance sold well. Launching without DRM does not absolutely annihilate sales.
GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world 3 days ago
And how much better would they have sold if they weren’t DRM free?
edible_funk@lemmy.world 3 days ago
And how much worse would they have sold if they weren’t DRM free? You can’t assert they would have sold better without actual data, and there isn’t any available. But in the case of cyberpunk specifically, made by cdpr, the company behind gog, I can safely say that if they had DRM they would have instantly alienated a significant portion of their fan base.
GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Your own link you previously posted says that they would have sold approximately 20% more, remember?
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