Does Piracy really have an impact?
Written by Mary Hilton
Wolfire programmer: poor PC ports, not piracy, hurt business
Most game developers will trot out all the “statistics” of piracy when defending their need to have DRM in their games.
However, one programmer disagrees, and in this article, he states why:
Another view of game piracy
His points should be taken seriously when game developers talk about DRM, because he worked on the “Humble bundle” which is a set of 5 games that the players can download free of DRM and pay whatever they like for the games.
The proceeds go to a charity you choose, or a developer of one of the bundles. You choose whatever payment method you want.
Now, if he gets it, why can’t other game publishers?
As of this date, the Humble Bundle has sold $896,206 in sales, with 100, 848 contributions across all the platforms supported. Impressive, for a few days being out.
Doing good and allowing the players to decide what to pay appears to be paying off for this company.
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