Originally Posted by eisberg
Originally Posted by Tevaul
Originally Posted by salad10203
What people forget is this is a consumer driven market. Valve and other game distributors depend on us not the other way around. If you don't like Securom, then don't buy it, thats it, you have cast your vote. I myself don't care and most don't. If your so mad, go over to piratebay and yell at the pirates who have caused all the DRM craze in the first place.


The problem is no one knows what the pirated numbers even are, are companies losing 1,000,000 game sales or 100. Is it still an issue or has this just become so ingrained that logic no longer matters. I don't think as I have stated above that most of the pirated downloads would translate into sales if all the pirated copies were unavailable.


All I know is several of my friends started to actually buy games for the first time in years during the hay day of Starforce. So many of the popular games protected with Starforce remained uncracked for up to a year that my friends got impatient and started to buy these games.


Than you might want to reconsider your choice of friends. =) Being serious, that is great to hear that it worked for them, but I can toss out a couple of friends that have stopped buying games due to DRM. I myself stopped buying anything with securom in it for a while until I found a way to get around it.

Last edited by Tevaul; 05/12/10 11:42 PM.