There's a lot of argument around pirates....
SH3 and SH4 have been on the internet cracked avaible to DL, indeed.
BUT, Sub Sim is a niche market. Ppl who play it will buy cause they're fans.
This DRM is not necessary
As a example Egosoft's X3Terran Conflict (privatter style space sim).
A long story short:
X3 reunion was the predecessor, the engine uses scripts. The COMMUNITY was able to implement many mods and new script to enhance tha game like X-tended mod ( GWX for sh3).
The same modders participated to create X3TC.
The last game needed the CD to be played with Securom. They removed it in a patch because the community that bought the game asked the dev.
Thats how you avoid piracy, buy customers heart, LISTEN them and interact with them. This way the next game is not a faillure because there are peoples ideas implemented, that will BUY the game.
For the last years i saw SH series and the subsim community having this kind of bound. Modders are very active, some people did tremendous work to find informations, schemes to allow modders make the game more accurate etc. That's how u make a better game.
This DRM for me is more a punishment for the community. The real fans IMO would be the major part of SH5 sales.
my 2 cents
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