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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.
In most country's the water is free in restaurant too, you pay for the drinking glass.
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#142This is pretty good for how fast the game got cracked. For context, this is Denuvo 11, the latest version, and the game came out on May 7, 2021. So a little over 2 months.
But she didn't work on the crack for two month, she started about two weeks ago and even that didn't work full time on it due to her personal life.
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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.
Oof. How did the company cope?
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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.
>Estonian
I think an issue here is that in lower-income countries software without regional pricing is considerably more of an expense. Something like Office or Photoshop is also quite different than a videogame imho, those are skills that are valuable (or often expected) on the labour market.
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> 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…
> 60-80% of sales Is what? Pirated? How can you have concrete data of something that didn't happen? A copy that didn't sell can not count towards sales. If it is based on sales estimation, then it could simply mean that the game didn't sell well because it was bad. Not every unsold copy of an estimation is automatically a pirated copy.
It's totally possible for a game to be cracked to accept a fake licence key, yet still have connect to an update server or what have you. That way the publishers end up easily seeing the amount of copies in the wild vs actual sales.
Keygens tend to be based on the cracker reverse engineering the licence key check algorithm, and then just spitting out a bunch of keys that fit it. Most people will pick the first key the keygen creates, which makes it easy to track the pirated copies.
The only way around the wholesale pirating of games is to make the game totally nerfed unless it can connect to a 'server'. This is why most AAA games all have at least some level of online features.
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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…
I think those are good arguments for allowing teenagers to pirate software. If you learn how to use photoshop then you’re unlikely to relearn GIMP. And companies are less likely to pirate software. (Though I have heard of some small ones that do)
>If you learn how to use photoshop then you’re unlikely to relearn GIMP.
We currently see something related to this in the Pharmaceutical industry. There are a lot of statisticians/programmers that learn R or python in university, while most large-pharma companies are using SAS. There is a movement within the industry to pivot or try to pivot to R due to the scarcity of SAS programmers or/and the cost of teaching new employees a new programming language.
If SAS would have more accessible trainings/certifications I am sure R would never even be considered.
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No, but it justifies artificially creating perfect copies of diamonds.
Of course I chose an analogy which sidestepped IP questions to focus on the moral issue of defending piracy based on the price. If your argument is against IP though, why is the price relevant? You support IP laws as long as the price is one you personally find reasonable, so it's basically a system of voluntary donations then?
I haven't personally drawn a hard line in the question of whether or not IP law as a whole is good or bad. I hate to use this cop-out answer, but it depends.
I'm sorry for jacking your analogy, but I think it holds water. Diamonds are not inherently valuable (to the degree they are priced at retail). They are valuable because of an exploitative supply chain and social manipulation efforts spanning decades. Which does not justify robbing stores and potentially causing physical or mental harm to innocent shopkeepers. But very much justifies replicating the product to render those practices worthless and hopefully deter them from happening more.
The same goes for educational textbooks in many (but far from all) cases. Personally I've had professors who assigned their own books at very reasonable prices and apologize profusely for them costing money to begin with. I've had others who peddled their own expensive books while themselves handing out copies (!) of books by other authors. I wouldn't dream of pirating the former, but I'm pirating the shit out of the latter if I can.
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Except the latter is not good, just aggressively marketed.
That's a "taste" thing. I think it's a great game...but not the advertised one.
Agreed. Plus, I enjoyed Cyberpunk more than Witcher, even after trying all 3. I didn't refund them, but I sure thought about it.
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#149One day, companies will realize releasing subpar product and charging for it is not the sanest business model.
Took the music industry a few decades to learn that suing your fans is bad for business. Now they have to deal with Spotify and Apple/Google/Amazon Music. Like, you're pretty awful when you end up a target by the biggest companies of the world and even the scrappy upstart is double the market cap of your biggest member (Spotify is double Universal Music Group: https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/9529823/spoti…
The music industry continues to blame illegal downloading and Apple strong arm tactics for its perceived profit loss. Hollywood has taken the music industry example to heart and is stonewalling Netflix to make sure it continues to maintain the upper hand over streaming services.
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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.
My ex is Bulgarian. She makes over €150k+, and she outright refuses to buy any software, even an app for €0,99.
Also, she's rather wait for ads instead of pay the €0,99.