Originally Posted by Tyhan
The main culprit is the need to use isos. You might not think it, but there are people who won't bother with pirating if they have to do that.

That's an interesting one, didn't really know that wink Do you think they (and them alike) are that numerous to make a difference? Most certainly they are far less compared to the pirates tbh ;P


Originally Posted by Tyhan
Most P2P MMOs have private servers, some even with as many players as an official server has. An interesting sentiment among many (certainly not all) players who do pay for MMOs is that they would refuse to play the game if it was free. The reason for that is usually because they don't want to deal with the "free to play players." Thus they are choosing to play this game because it has "DRM."

Didn't think about it that way, even tho I myself had quit playing LotRo because it became f2p x) Yet I can still see a difference here: people choose to play p2p mmos due to in a certain sense indirect effects of this DRM (namely selection of players and high ql customer service [as DRM doesn't have to necessarily come with this]) as opposed to players not willing to play (a legal copy of) a game directly on grounds of it incorporating a (form of) DRM.

Seek your own truth. Always.