[trinsic2]

I'd argue that games being open source and being pirated does mean you can't make money. I think you are looking at this backwards, like the rest of the industry. You don't need to force people to buy your stuff by making it closed and preventing people from getting at your stuff for free.

THe people that matter will compensate you if you make something that matters to them.

The whole idea that you need to force people to by your stuff through restrictions is a perverse way of looking at the world.

[dangus]

I think the piracy rate probably varies a lot by demographic and overall target audience, and that for some types of games and publishers a lot of the draconian DRM makes a lot of sense from a pure dollars and sense standpoint.

A certain type of player just checks for cracked versions first even though they have the money to buy the game and for that person Denuvo buying the publisher a few weeks/months of a crack not being available is worth the investment.

I suspect that a lot of the most famous examples of big budget games with no DRM at all have an older, more educated, and more affluent demographic.