“No no, you see? We need DRM or nobody will buy the game, trust. No game without DRM ever sells!”
Me and my brother pirated it, loved it, bought it. (Especially because the multiplayer works on pirated version and very simply so.)
Piracy increases sales.
Remember the PS1 demos? Had I been of working age back then, I’d have bought half of them merely because I loved the demos.
Well, piracy increases sales of a good game. Same as demos, though demos may misrepresent the actual gameplay if done poorly.
You would have brought it anyway. I like piracy it’s fine but you don’t have to cope and act like piracy was doing them a favor.
I would not have bought it, no. I don’t really buy games.
Also it was like 50-60 euros, that’s a dent in my monthly drinking budget man, I can’t take that. It’s like one nice or two semi-nice or three okay bottles of rum.
cope and act like piracy was doing them a favor.
It’s you who’s “coping” actually.
The EU commissioned a study on piracy affecting sales some years back. When it came back as “no negative effect, perhaps even a positive one”, the EU lowkey tried suppressing the study.
https://felixreda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/displacement_study.pdf
There’s the actual study.
And here’s the news about the suppression.
https://gizmodo.com/the-eu-suppressed-a-300-page-study-that-found-piracy-do-1818629537
It continues to have strong player numbers in general, which is probably why it never goes on a decent sale. Best I’ve seen is 25% off launch price. My patient gamer ass is not paying that for a years old game, no matter how good it is.
206.3 hours for me, I’m only halfway through the achievements and I am on my way up to the giant brain for the first time.
spoiler
I’m really pissed that I had to become a tentacle monster to take on the brain. (Not sure if different choices would have changed the outcome.)
Absolutely could make different choices. There’s… a lot of different ways for the game to end.
Karlach or Orpheus could take that role too
