and there is no chemo

inventions are all focused on making people comfortable/things easier/healthier/making money (which gets jobs/hires people)/etc

@Calbeck Problem: You have to identify a customer vs a pirate, and you *literally can't*

Receipt.

you mean.......

i would suggest the scarcity of video games and digital content is actually derived from the people for make/code it

the point of DRM?

which identifies a customer?

the time and skill they put into it

if it didnt identify a customer

there would be no purpose to it

and it would make a game impossible to play for everyone

spoilers

For DRM to positively identify a customer, it must be able to identify your legal purchase, meaning having a record of the transaction AND the ability to match you do it

not really as we have seen it is more profitable to do shit like release shitty games to market and charge for incremential updates

you can buy gears of war 5

and the DRM says ayy ok

If that's what you demand, then expect it eventually

gone are the days of massive, front-end development

too risky

@ManAnimal perhaps they'd have more if there was less pirating

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Okay really alt tabbing back to MHW, I feel like I'm trying to argue 2A with demonrats atm, the level of speaking without knowing what the fuck they're talking about is hilariously high.

doubtful

they aren't going to that model because they are losing money

There is no Constitutional right to free shit.

pretentious, more like

https://imgur.com/HuKZqiU

they are going to that model because of the inherent risk of developing an elaborate game like No Man's Sky and having it not sell

"oh, i was in the military, i know everything about why we're in iraq and its either terrible or wonderful, dont think for yourself"

literally what you sound like

It's noble if you obtain a "demo version" and then *actually pay for it* but that's a matter of faith in humanity innit?

much easier to feel out the market with a hastily made alpha version then realse incremental and paid upgrades

so lessons learned here (i guess):
devs should make demos great again
whoever invents a better DRM will get boatloads of money

and what that model, DRM is just stupid

Gamers are right to distrust dev greed or bad DRMs, and devs are right to distrust a market economy premised on the honor system

either the honor system, or the uninformed buyer system

nah, blockchain based will probably next

Maybe.

I really don't understand blockchain itself well enough to comment.

great potential for paid transactions of game assets using independant markets