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Originally Posted by janh
....If their products are now cracked and distributed less, and much later than the first release dates, the common "downloads theory" would require their sales to "sky-rock" now (well, at least they should be able to measure a lower number of hacked downloads now, and correlate that with an increase in sales, if their theory is not entirely flawed). In about a year or two, we will see whether they were right -- and so many other companies that follow them suit as well. Or whether a few companies now do serious harm to themselves and proof that the customers turned away because they didn't provide quality and service anymore.
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You're right. Maybe one good thing out of this mess is we finally have case examples and data sets to help quantify the true loss owing to piracy.
My hypothesis:
A. The true number of lost sales in relation to pirate downloads will be far less than anyone thinks. I strongly suspect that few former pirates and torrent trolls will now buy the games that they previously downloaded illegally...especially games like SH that appeal to a rather limited audience.
B. If "A" is proven true, UBI will not release that data. If "A" is true, than UBI's DRM was nothing in the end but a colossal inconvenience for the gaming community.
Time will tell for sure. For now, there's SH3, SH4, and plenty of games from other developers out there. I hear Shogun 2: Total War is on the horizon now.