i mean

its *potentially* possible

No

but the main ways of doing it involve drm

or always online

what they gonna do call the navy

It is *physically impossible* to prevent piracy

You can only delay it

**bet**

We can't even protect the plans for the F-35; You think game devs will have strong enough anti-pirate?

Nibba I'm literally a programmer with computer security training

well yeah

It is impossible to prevent piracy indefinitely

@𝕯𝖊𝖗_𝕶𝖔𝖒𝖒𝖎𝖘𝖘𝖆𝖗 no, it's simpler than that. A *good* game has no inherent value. There's an infinite supply of said game, since the product is just information that can be replicated.
From a rational standpoint, nobody who makes vidya (or movies, or music, etc) should be getting paid for it. The money they do make comes entirely from enticing their consumers to make non-rational purchases.
Companies do not understand this, which is why they keep chasing DRM to no benefit.

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it is physically impossible to prevent your castle from being sieged

but you can delay it

I miss the era of demo discs

big woop

castles still existed

"Doom! Play the first level free!"

i still have a few demos somewhere

that shit was fuckin' errywhere

If every dev had a policy of removing the DRM once there's a working crack I'd be more okay with it

@Spooky Melon it's much easier to crack DRM than to crack a castle

thats true

But they don't, and thus legitimate customers are treated as criminals

still the same mindset

@UnfilteredGarbage When put that way, I think I've got a better idea of your general contention; Nothing you've said there I can reasonably dispute.

anyways

@UnfilteredGarbage at least when it comes to physical value, you could say the same with anything that isnt water or food

you wouldn't download a car "the fuck I wouldn't"

@Eirshy that would be better, yeah

but i get your point

**mail your local game dev lmao**

@killsode-slugcat that's not true. Everything physical has scarcity.

but why care about gold?

@Spooky Melon Actually no, your castle vs drm analogy isn't the same mindset. A castle doesn't oppress the peasants around it simply by existing

uh

it kinda does