One, there are other costs to piracy than just lost sales. I do want to point to a couple of things, though. No, I don't want to re-hash the endless 'piracy spreads awareness', 'I only pirate because there's no demo', 'people who pirate wouldn't buy the game anyway' round-robin.īeen there, done that. Trying to make it on PC product is even tougher, and here's why. It's a rough, rough world out there for independent studios who want to make big games, even worse if you're single-team and don't have a successful franchise to ride or a wealthy benefactor. This is tangentially related to that, not why they shut down, but part of why it was such a difficult freaking slog trying not to. To the Governance of Historical Heritage anno 1701 copy protection. Review: Anno 1701 copy protection drivers. It blows me away at the amount of people willing to steal games (or anything) simply because it's not physical or it's on the safety of the internet to do. Not sure if I can share the exact numbers or percentage of PC players with you, but I'll check and see if I can I'll update with them.Īs the amount of people who pirate PC games is astounding. What wasn't fantastic was the percentage of those numbers who were playing on stolen copies of the game on stolen / cracked CD keys of pirated copies (and that was only people playing online). On another PC related note, we pulled some disturbing numbers this past week about the amount of PC players currently playing Multiplayer (which was fantastic).
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