Yeah this is a straight up cost-benefit thing.
The cost being the actual investment in dollars and resources to build, implement and maintain the DRM... which of course is passed along to the customer either as a price increase, or an equivalent slice of the project budget being redirected away from actual game development (features, QA, etc). Then there's the inevitable and entirely foreseeable bad press on review sites and boards like this all over the internet... which translates into lost sales.
On the other hand you have the benefit. The benefit being... what?
It didn't stop the pirates.
And although it may prevent 2nd hand re-sale, I don't believe that's a big market in the PC world at any rate.
Did I miss anything?
Does it still make sense?
JD
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