You made one sale because of your anti-drm policy
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Hi, I didn't know anything about your game until I read the news of the piracy. It's unfortunate what happened with the pirates slamming the servers, but I'm happy that you left out anti-customer DRM from your game. So I wanted to show my support by purchasing your game.
You bought it because it didn't have DRM? DRM hasn't/doesn't stop pirating. The only way to stop it is to offer services which require servers to validate your key and track usage. Battle.net has basically stopped any major piracy for Blizzard because no one wants to play the games offline with themselves. The majority of sales and customers who anyone cares about are the ones who play the game online day after day.... and you have to have a legit key!
If they offered a battle.net type service for this game more ppl would have bought the game.... more people would have been happy about the quality of service as it actually friggin works.
I think that's the point...
And they are providing a battle.net type service, they just underestimated the stress that would get placed on it so it's a little shakey for the moment.
And they are providing a battle.net type service, they just underestimated the stress that would get placed on it so it's a little shakey for the moment.
Exactly the point. I support Stardock because I want them to continue to offer DRM-free games, despite the recent problems. I will not buy games with draconian DRM that only punish the customer and not the pirate. Every game gets cracked, so why do I, a legitimate customer, have to deal with installation limits, blocked 3rd party software (like Daemon Tools), Securom rootkits, and general inconvenience?
The pirates get the game *without* all that crap.
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