And you know the sad thing is?, some people actually do pirate said games just because the market isn't as involved in a countries economy, look at japan, look at Latin America, or at least at Mexico, Venezuela, Peru and Puerto Rico, they don't have much of a market in the whole videogame industry, yet the reach of said companies makes them sell their consoles in said territory, but there is never any software available (or there isn't any supplies or that much demand) to sustain said consoles for the duration of their market, and instead some companies go mobile or just go the FUCK away from that country's market.

If they wanted to end piracy, they should branch on already economy-stabilized countries so they flourish, fill their supplies and then expand with an international law that protects their property from future vandalization or any mishaps, but they just expand with no point of view of what actually is profit and what is not when they move into a certain location, especially if there weren't being any interested buyers or investors from the very beggining, since well, they don't cater to the market or they don't see profit on it as well.

Justice is served... Fuck Denuvo.

CHEESE FOR EVERYONE!

Same here, Lords of the Fallen looks really interesting but Denuvo is a total turn off. :(

Games piracy doesn't constitute lost sales, it's that simple. The vast majority of it is from people who just don't have a lot of disposable income. So as a business, just focus on the people with money and a steady income, and don't worry about poor people getting to play your game for free (and potentially becoming a fan of your games).

Don't want to go too far off topic here, but the SecuROM version of DRM on ME1 is far, far worse than installing Origin.

I think we've had a similar thing with some new-release games we've seen here that were released a month or two after appearance on Steam. I'd be interested to see some sales numbers from those cases.

Given that most digital distributors have contracts in place that don't allow publishers/developers to divulge exact sales figures, it's never going to possible to determine with any accuracy whether a game sells more or less due to the inclusion of any form of DRM. It also doesn't help when such games are not released in all regions... Of course this won't stop people making unproven claims either way.

I think those publishers wouldn't want to do that, because the whole idea of DRM (for them) is "you won't be able to get this unless you buy it", but if people knew that in a month or two the DRM is going to be lifted, then they would know that a pirate copy is going to be released for certain and not buy.

Not that it would help, but I would assume that is the reason why the DRM is not removed later on.

Wait, why the fuck would Inquisition have third party DRM when EA has Origin?

Not that I really care, I hate Bioware's Sidekick simulators and have no desire to play their latest offering of "I strongly agree / agree / am neutral about this / disagree / strongly disagree with thing that you are talking about ... now can we have an insanely awkward scene of virtual puppet sex?"

... I'd honestly never even heard of this DRM system till now, is there something special about it?

Claims of it affecting performance, claims of it wearing down SSDs, claims of it being "uncrackable" as FIFA stayed over 2 months without a pirate version.

Actually, a lot of Origin games have 3rd party DRM. Take your pick, from Dead Space to The Sims 4; SecuROM :(

It's been making headlines because it's taken months to crack, which is actually fairly common when new DRM schemes hit the market. However, it's being marketed as an anti-tamper solution. The idea being that it prevents executables from being run without its client DRM, rather than being a complete DRM solution in and of itself. It's a subtle difference and it's difficult separating marketing from fact, but worth pointing out nonetheless :)

Awesome! Glad they finally got it. Another blow in the neverending war.

this example is interesting, but i dont think it applies in general. i take diablo 3 as a counterexample. its sad, but you can rise sales through drm and blizzard knows how. just to clarify, i dont have a battlenet account & hate blizzard, this was no hidden advertisement attempt.

Cannot say, that I'm surprised. Believe, that denuvo was real challenge for some - since was presented like not-crackable.