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Re: Resident Evil Village crack completely fixes its stuttering issues

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Post by johnchristopher »

sundvor wrote: post #58
tw04 wrote: post #54

I know I might be in the minority, but I just wish we could stop at semi-difficult license keys. When I was poor in college, either I would pirate a game or just not play it because there was just no way I could ever afford it. Now as a grown up I'd much rather pay for the game both to support the creator as well as not roll the dice on a backdoored keygen. I HAVE to believe that the number of folks that can both aff…

There's proof you're right, from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27798879

Hardly. Except from this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27799795 and maybe another I miss the whole thread is about people growing up in poor countries stating piracy was the only way to watch content.

Re: Resident Evil Village crack completely fixes its stuttering issues

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Post by dijit »

tw04 wrote: post #54

I know I might be in the minority, but I just wish we could stop at semi-difficult license keys. When I was poor in college, either I would pirate a game or just not play it because there was just no way I could ever afford it. Now as a grown up I'd much rather pay for the game both to support the creator as well as not roll the dice on a backdoored keygen. I HAVE to believe that the number of folks that can both aff…

> I HAVE to believe that the number of folks that can both afford to buy the game and would buy the game, but would try to pirate first, is a fraction of a percent of the market.

I have actual concrete data about this¹ and unfortunately the percentage is much larger than you realise.

I'm still under NDA until 2024 but it's in the region of 60-80% of sales for certain games, especially RPGs which seem to get pirated the most.

People like to cite hugely successful products being DRM-Free or something as proof that it works, but for every project that works well there's hundreds that die in obscurity.

Also, people like to back a champion to "prove that it works" which inflates the margins of the champion product.

¹ - based on my time at Ubisoft, and based on Ubisoft titles only and when accounting for other differences between franchised games.

Re: Resident Evil Village crack completely fixes its stuttering issues

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Post by richrichardsson »

Shosty123 wrote: post #70
viktorcode wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe the cases of steep sales drop were observed at the moment when a cracked game binary appeared. No game studio would want to spend resources (developers work and licensing cost) implementing anti-piracy for nothing.

Yep. My first developer position was at an audio software company that made a plugin used by EDM artists. The year our software was cracked (2009ish), our sales dropped by 65%. Support tickets also nearly quadrupled including a massive increase in refund requests and chargebacks because customers realized they could get it for free instead.

ReFX Nexus perchance? If not it's another example of the crack destroying sales.

Re: Resident Evil Village crack completely fixes its stuttering issues

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Post by AussieWog93 »

alpaca128 wrote: post #90
AussieWog93 wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apparently a lot of devs included SecuROM in their products not as an actual hindrance to pirates, but to placate investors who are concerned about piracy reducing sales. The people who actually make the software are fully aware that any DRM will be cracked within 48 hours of release (with a few small exceptions).

As far as I know SecuROM is popular because it takes a bit longer to crack, thus helping the publishers secure the critical sales of the first week. Afterwards many studios remove it again to make it actually playable. I guess that's also why AAA games are hyped so much before release, so that many people preorder it.

Ahh, fair enough. Thinking about it, that comment was probably from 10 years ago when almost everything was cracked near day one and Steam hadn't yet reached 100% penetration.

Re: Resident Evil Village crack completely fixes its stuttering issues

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Post by nix23 »

ifdefdebug wrote: post #81
jhasse wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're forced to use Windows due to multiple reasons.

You're forced to drink water for much stronger reasons yet you pay for it if you don't dig up your own.

I most country's water is free, you pay for the infrastructure that brings it into your household and cleans it.

Re: Resident Evil Village crack completely fixes its stuttering issues

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Post by unishark »

powersnail wrote: post #86
unishark wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I see this same issue with books Particularly with international students (who are ironically paying the most in tuition and housing oftentimes). Though I go out of my way to find cheaper textbooks sometimes, or accommodate older editions that can be bought dirt-cheap used, students will still just find a scanned version somewhere and share them with each other. There's online networks where they do this apparently.

Well, to be honest, university textbooks (at least in US) is in general a predatory market. There are courses that require $800 worth of textbook. > who are ironically paying the most in tuition and housing oftentimes It's not ironic. They have no choice (other than not attending the university of course). If there is a loophole that lets students not pay the tuition fee without any punishment, a good amount of stude…

Diamonds are sometimes absurdly expensive with no valid reason. Do you believe this justifies robbing diamond stores?

Re: Resident Evil Village crack completely fixes its stuttering issues

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Post by jobigoud »

dijit wrote: post #112
tw04 wrote: post #54

I know I might be in the minority, but I just wish we could stop at semi-difficult license keys. When I was poor in college, either I would pirate a game or just not play it because there was just no way I could ever afford it. Now as a grown up I'd much rather pay for the game both to support the creator as well as not roll the dice on a backdoored keygen. I HAVE to believe that the number of folks that can both aff…

> I HAVE to believe that the number of folks that can both afford to buy the game and would buy the game, but would try to pirate first, is a fraction of a percent of the market. I have actual concrete data about this¹ and unfortunately the percentage is much larger than you realise. I'm still under NDA until 2024 but it's in the region of 60-80% of sales for certain games, especially RPGs which seem to get pirated t…

Note that the GP wrote "that would buy the game" which I think makes this unknowable / unmeasurable. You can measure how many players have pirated the game but not how many of them wouln't have bothered at all if they had had to pay for it.

Take a person that has pirated many games, how do you know which ones they would have actually paid for? Even if you knew the ones they play the most, it woulnd't necessarily translate to a buy in the same order.

Re: Resident Evil Village crack completely fixes its stuttering issues

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Post by fho »

dijit wrote: post #108
seer wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Used to pirate a lot as a poor kid in eastern europe, as there was no way I could either afford it, find a legal copy or both. Now as a paid developer I always buy the software / games I use, as its much less of a hustle, and I’d like to support the people whose work I’m using. But I still have some friends that never buy anything digital, after being brought up on pirated software they would describe buying it as “n…

My ex-girlfriend (Estonian) will not buy software because to her it's not "worth money". So, similar mentality. I ended up buying all her software (Office, photoshop etc;) but she said it was a waste of money.

Well ... depending on the usecase it _is_ a waste of money. Libreoffice, Gimp and Inkscape are perfectly viable alternatives to MS and Adobe products if you are a casual user.

That said, I don't believe anybody who has used the 'real' office/photoshop/etc is easily able to go back to a 'lesser' alternative, but that's mostly due to sunken cost and lock in ... but, I don't think a casual user will make good use of the better features in the better software.

Re: Resident Evil Village crack completely fixes its stuttering issues

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Post by DocTomoe »

unishark wrote: post #116
powersnail wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, to be honest, university textbooks (at least in US) is in general a predatory market. There are courses that require $800 worth of textbook. > who are ironically paying the most in tuition and housing oftentimes It's not ironic. They have no choice (other than not attending the university of course). If there is a loophole that lets students not pay the tuition fee without any punishment, a good amount of stude…

Diamonds are sometimes absurdly expensive with no valid reason. Do you believe this justifies robbing diamond stores?

I think it is ethically ok to rob diamond stores if somehow you are forced to possess diamonds and diamonds are only available through a prohibitively expensive and exploitative market.

Like textbooks written by the professors actually holding the lecture that change tiny bits every semester, especially in information relevant to coursework, to make used textbooks essentially worthless.

Re: Resident Evil Village crack completely fixes its stuttering issues

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Post by DocTomoe »

8note wrote: post #103
ifdefdebug wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're forced to drink water for much stronger reasons yet you pay for it if you don't dig up your own.

you can get a free glass of water from bars and the like

... in the US. In most of the world, water in restaurants costs money.
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