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Just bougth MGS V (still downloading on Steam) and I found out it has that F**king Denuvo-DRM like Batman AK, Lord of The Fallen, Dragon Age 3 all of which have bad performance. DRM has found its way back to PC gaming, game developers and publishers like to treat PC like dirt.

When will we actually own games we pay for, getting sick of DRM.

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I don't think DRM is going anywhere anytime soon IMO. It's pointless anyway because pirates will just crack away and only the legit consumers suffer

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When will we actually own games we pay for, getting sick of DRM.

 

When it starts costing them sales. That is to say, never.

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I've had addons for games with DRM so shit it didn't work and deleted random folders and broke the game.

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I doubt it will go anywhere, if it does change and becomes stricter you'll lose legit customers if you remove it companies will lose, its a dirty economic system and those that suffer are the ones who actually spend, its for companies protection and not the customer, if any law would change it to protect the consumer then companies would stop making money.

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Just bougth MGS V (still downloading on Steam) and I found out it has that F**king Denuvo-DRM like Batman AK, Lord of The Fallen, Dragon Age 3 all of which have bad performance. DRM has found its way back to PC gaming, game developers and publishers like to treat PC like dirt.

When will we actually own games we pay for, getting sick of DRM.

 

It would probably need the majority of the consumers to vote "NO" with their wallets, yet, even though we all hate DRM, we are still buying the games...

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They don't care. As long as it makes it a pain in the ass for pirates to crack, that's all that matters.

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sadly it will probably never go away.  they need to realize DRM only hurts the legitimate customers. pirates are going to crack it and play it anyways.

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They don't care. As long as it makes it a pain in the ass for pirates to crack, that's all that matters.

They'll pirate it any way, remember AC 2 of which the cracked version worked even better than the one with DRM

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When the world doesn't have a thing called money.

Very optimistic... System "I'll give you this if you gave me that" is way older than money

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Never. All these companies are run by old fashioned people who are way too afraid of piracy. They just don't understand they are hurting their sales more than anything.

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Just bougth MGS V (still downloading on Steam) and I found out it has that F**king Denuvo-DRM like Batman AK, Lord of The Fallen, Dragon Age 3 all of which have bad performance. DRM has found its way back to PC gaming, game developers and publishers like to treat PC like dirt.

When will we actually own games we pay for, getting sick of DRM.

When pigs fly tbh. and piracy wont stop until the consumers stop feeling stomped on, so never.

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the moment piracy stops being a problem.

Piracy is not the problem, many games has DRM for months and their sales were not even close the developer's expectation on PC. Removing DRM how ever did increase sales (The Witcher 2). Console gamers pirate too but it's much more complicated than PC.

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Piracy is not the problem, many games has DRM for months and their sales were not even close the developer's expectation on PC. Removing DRM how ever did increase sales (The Witcher 2). Console gamers pirate too but it's much more complicated than PC.

piracy is the reason DRM happened in the first place.

 

devs got pissed off people copied their games between machines from one purchased license, and thats how shit hit the fan.

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that said, i believe DRM isnt the issue you're facing, its that the DRM is interrupting your means of consuming games.

aside from the frikkin' code in the box, the DRM on games like sims, and the different tycoon games hasnt annoyed me even once, and it stops people from just broadcasting their game on the net, because the key would get blocked in no time.

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It'll never go anywhere, it makes shareholders happy knowing that the publisher/developer has at least 'attempted' to thwart piracy.  It's just something the publisher/developer can mention in shareholder meetings, nothing more really.

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the moment piracy stops being a problem.

 

Piracy is not the problem, many games has DRM for months and their sales were not even close the developer's expectation on PC. Removing DRM how ever did increase sales (The Witcher 2). Console gamers pirate too but it's much more complicated than PC.

Indeed. There's more people that actually buy their games than those who pirate them. GTA V for example sold over 2 million for PC during the first month of release.

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Very optimistic... System "I'll give you this if you gave me that" is way older than money

Exactly.....money came and muck the whole process up......and now we have DRM frustrating people :angry:

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