Game stealing.
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Why would you want to put software on your computer that often acts just like adware and attempts to control what you have already paid for? It doesn’t make sense to me either. They punish those that want to play legally and end up shooting themselves in the foot, kind of like cutting off your nose to spite your face. I don’t quite get what the thought process is the game companies go through? Put the game out with clear documentation on what the public is actually getting when they buy it and then put a huge effort into the community and ensuring that people who are playing the game illegally are painted as scum in that game community. I think if company worked to change the gamers attitudes about their games and how they do DRM it would pay off in dividends for them. They would just have to get the gamers behind them.
Can anybody really blame people for downloading games illegally? Actually, I can but in general I don’t. The companies are cracking down and making the illegal game copies so much more appealing. When a company makes it downright unpleasant for the regular public to play their games through harsh digital rights management actions, like required, continual online activation or other measures, people will choose the easier way if they want to play.
It wouldn’t be too hard to do especially if you had little to no DRM and specifically stated that and why you did it. Make the community and your users your DRM and you have people to support you, a built in audience and more revenue. If you have a few people in the forums or just around the net quietly pointing out that if you aren’t playing the game legally we want nothing to do with you because you are trying to kill what we like by not supporting the game makers, I think the message would get across. Plus you wouldn’t be driving over half of your potential gamers away with unpleasant and invasive DRM. Of course the game has to also be good, but that’s a different issue.