The Storm Eagle DRM model caused me to pass up Jutland. They're such a small studio, I didn't think I could risk getting that final patch to make the game playable, if they went belly up.
Matrix games uses a serial number model. It seems to work pretty well, but they're an even smaller niche than sub sims and their games are cheap to make, relatively, and sell only a few thousand copies.
I don't know the answer to this. Maybe there isn't one. I think it will end with the publishers just getting out of the PC market.
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