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Instead of fighting the pirates, infest their own nest...
Release 3 to 4 torrents right after release date that looks credibles enough but are massively broken once tried to be installed
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Unfortunately, Pirates are much smarter than this.
The people who write and distribute the cracks have reputations to uphold. If some new guy pops onto the scene and offers something, and it turns out to be "broken," nobody will seed that torrent and it will quickly die. Most people will only download torrents from a well-known "reputable" source. The guy who downloads a .exe from an unknown hacker is the same type of guy who would walk alone and unarmed into a bad area of Detroit wearing a Rolex watch and $500 shoes.
The only purpose this would serve is to strike back at a few dumb kids who decided to try a game for free. Whooptie doo. It wouldn't put a dent in the pirating of a game.
The biggest defense this game will have agains pirates is the fact that it's a niche game, and as much as UBI wants to reach the mainstream market, not many people are going to be interested in a submarine simulator (or even a "shooter", depending on how it turns out.) It's too much work to interest casual gamers, even with health bars and auto-targeting. Compared to games like Call of Duty, it's like watching grass grow to a casual gamer.
The only sales they will "lose" are the ones from the fence-sitters who MIGHT buy it, or MIGHT download it illegally. Offering them incentives is about the only way to sway them in your direction. Giving them a demo to try would help a lot too. Strong-arming them into restrictive DRM will only send them in the other direction.