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    Cyberpunk sold well. Kingdom Come Deliverance sold well. Launching without DRM does not absolutely annihilate sales.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (7 children)

    And how much worse would they have sold if they weren't DRM free? You can't assert they would have sold better without actual data, and there isn't any available. But in the case of cyberpunk specifically, made by cdpr, the company behind gog, I can safely say that if they had DRM they would have instantly alienated a significant portion of their fan base.

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    You're not academically literate are ya? Don't parse many studies or papers or even know how to, do ya?

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    You read so well you're reading conclusions that aren't presented! Actually read the fuckin link, it doesn't say anything other than what it says and you're some sort of ideological defender of DRM so you're bad faith twice. Fuckin lemmy pigeons playing chess.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (5 children)

    That's not exactly what it's saying. It's specific to denuvo games which generally means AAA publishers, it's a small sample size, and it's about the impact DRM has on sales, not piracy. It's not an arbitrary distinction. I'll grant it definitely implies piracy has a net negative effect on sales but that's not at all what it's actually saying.

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    That's not how data works. It doesn't say anything but what it says. You're making inferences, which sure fair but until there's data specific to your inferences (there isn't) you can't say that. You can say denuvo cracks in the first week in the case of some 90 games resulted in up to a maximum of twenty percent loss of sales. It is an important distinction. And the massive success of DRM free titles also goes against your assertion.

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