Machinarium suffers 90% piracy rate, offers $5 amnesty sale
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Machinarium suffers 90% piracy rate, offers $5 amnesty sale
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#2Machinarium is amazing. I purchased it last December when they had a sale going. I would've gladly paid the full price for it.
Re: Machinarium suffers 90% piracy rate, offers $5 amnesty sale
#3Even if you don't wish to play the game (often), the soundtrack is pretty awesome to have as background coding music. $5 is a steal.
Re: Machinarium suffers 90% piracy rate, offers $5 amnesty sale
#4Interesting. So 90% of the people pirate the game (which has no serial number or protection). I thought the reason people pirated apps was because of draconian protection systems like DRM?!
Re: Machinarium suffers 90% piracy rate, offers $5 amnesty sale
#5So those who are honest pay the full price, and those who don't only have to pay 1/4?
Yeah that is going to cut down on piracy.
Re: Machinarium suffers 90% piracy rate, offers $5 amnesty sale
#6Interesting. So 90% of the people pirate the game (which has no serial number or protection). I thought the reason people pirated apps was because of draconian protection systems like DRM?!
if there's no registration, DRM, popup messages, etc., then i wonder how they got the 90% number.
i didn't pirate it, but i'd probably buy this game at $5. for what it is, a shorter single player, point-and-click puzzle game, i don't know that i'd pay $20.
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#7So those who are honest pay the full price, and those who don't only have to pay 1/4? Yeah that is going to cut down on piracy.
i'm honest, didn't pirate it, and will likely pay the 1/4 price to buy it. i would likely not pay the full price for it.
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#9So those who are honest pay the full price, and those who don't only have to pay 1/4? Yeah that is going to cut down on piracy.
It's $5 for everyone. The piracy thing is a marketing gimmick because you don't get written up in gadget blogs just because you have a sale.
Re: Machinarium suffers 90% piracy rate, offers $5 amnesty sale
#10Interesting. So 90% of the people pirate the game (which has no serial number or protection). I thought the reason people pirated apps was because of draconian protection systems like DRM?!
People pirate in general because it's easy.
People pirate games with DRM because the pirate version is better than the legit one.
You could easily argue that the DRM is increasing both the number and social acceptability of software pirates, which is basically the opposite of what it claims to be doing.