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Old 03-16-10, 10:12 AM   #17
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Originally Posted by Dowly View Post
The problem is, AC2 has consoles to fall on. AC2 has sold ~700,000 copies more than AC1 had in 16 weeks on consoles. That is 700,000 players they can "sacrifice" to the DRM on PC. You think there will be even half of that number who will boycott the DRM? I don't.
The problem is publishers don't rely on the PC market anymore. CoD:MW2 was a hit on consoles, but only sold 270,000+ legal copies for the PC while there were 4,100,000+ illegal PC pirate copies.

SH5 may be holding up well simply because there is no console version.
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