Gotta love DRM that makes paid versions of games worse than pirated stuff.
If you are treating your paying customers worse than someone you perceive as stealing from you, you are doing something seriously wrong.
As long as it’s as effective as it is, they’ll keep using it.
For example, the latest FIFA game that was cracked is FIFA 19. The rest are still safe thanks to Denuvo.
Yeah, but that might just be that no one cares enough about the FIFA games to waste energy cracking them, not because of Denuvo specifically.
Aren’t they extremely popular still…? Highest selling sport series of all-time from what I can see. Certainly not as liked these days though, that’s true.
FIFA is one of the most popular game in Brazil, a country of over 200 million people. I doubt it’s a matter of little interest.
It really is that Denuvo is effective at preventing cracking.
Piracy is just a fancy word for price sensitivity.
Photoshop would not have the market dominance that it enjoys if college kids where not pirating it for a decade.
My son knows how to model in blender because a 12 yr old cannot afford maya. In a generation blender will own the space. He will never use maya.
Napster created a generation of music fans that put way more money into the industry than previous generations ever did.
A certain amount of loss should be tolerable, because it is often the pathway to future growth. A pirated copy isn’t a lost sale, it’s your investment in the next generation of consumers
I’m honestly shocked Adobe hasn’t tried to capitalize on the people who pirate from them, considering they’re the one company where the service is good and the cost is not
Do you know how much they’d take in if they had a yet cheaper tier for certain apps with a ‘personal use only’ clause or something? Probably a fuck ton if i had to guess
I know right. The fuck should I pay 10/mo to use Lightroom as a hobby photographer who will never make a dime off my images? 25-50/yr and I would never even look at the alternatives.
The free hobby license for fusion 360 means I am sort of locked in to auto desk CAD software because it is all I have used for years now. Big win right?
