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Epic Games Admits In Court That Its PC Store Still Isn't Profitable(kotaku.com)

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Rose@lemmy.world
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Yeah, making it a requirement for playing your physical copy of Half-Life definitely looks like good will to me.

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Desistance@lemmy.world
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And in turn diminished the industry’s piracy problm for many years, making PC Games market a stable ecosystem instead of letting all of PC gaming die.

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Keltha@lemmy.world
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No? Cracks were created for that too

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yamanii@lemmy.world
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Yes? How can you possibly deny that? Steam was able to claw a market in russia, a country famous for piracy. Gaben was right, convenience with good prices trumps everything.

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howrar@lemmy.ca
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Sure, cracks still exist, but I’ve stopped downloading them in favour of buying off Steam because the user experience was a lot better. I’m sure I can’t be the only one to do this.

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beefcat@lemmy.world
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Before Steam existed i would even crack games I had legitimate copies of solely because pre-Steam DRM was such an enormous pain in the ass to deal with.

Even today Denuvo is a veritable paradise compared to what DRM used to be like.

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