The copy protection in frontier elite 2 was so annoying I got a pirate version just to avoid it (enter code from manual once every hour or two). This was back in amiga days, so games companies driving customers to the pirates is nothing new. If I remember right it robocop 3 with the dongle that 'would end priacy' that was broken in 3 hrs. You'd think they'd have learned by now. I hate having to put cd/dvd in to play a game. When deciding whether to just click icon to start game or hunt out disk from drawer and search for box for cd currently in machine before starting a game, guess which I usually go for. And if I've played one game a lot more than the other and both games have sequel come out guess which one I am more likely to buy.
Game makers note, drm will hurt your sales and encourage your customers to find pirate sites to bypass it, and having been pushed by you towards the pirate site, next time they might just go straight there to bypass the buying part as well as the drm part.
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The copy protection in frontier elite 2 was so annoying I got a pirate version just to avoid it (enter code from manual once every hour or two). This was back in amiga days, so games companies driving customers to the pirates is nothing new. If I remember right it robocop 3 with the dongle that 'would end priacy' that was broken in 3 hrs. You'd think they'd have learned by now. I hate having to put cd/dvd in to play a game. When deciding whether to just click icon to start game or hunt out disk from drawer and search for box for cd currently in machine before starting a game, guess which I usually go for. And if I've played one game a lot more than the other and both games have sequel come out guess which one I am more likely to buy.
Game makers note, drm will hurt your sales and encourage your customers to find pirate sites to bypass it, and having been pushed by you towards the pirate site, next time they might just go straight there to bypass the buying part as well as the drm part.