The facts of life: A heartfelt defense of Ubisoft and DRM

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Originally Posted by MattDizzle

Ok guys i'll make this as simple as i can.

Piracy is having a massive impact on getting PC games funded and green-lit (approved for production), more and more people are gaining acess to always-on broadband and the software required to pirate any game, software or movie they wish. Due to the unique way in which the internet is decentralized and tends to treat censorship or intrusion in any way like a body treats an infection (Contain and replace), i dont see this stopping any time in the future, or at least the next 10 years.

At the same time the costs associated with making a video game have skyrocketed, gamers demand bigger worlds, more accurate animations, gone are the days when it was a 2d bar with buttons and text speech. So the income has simultaneously been cut, while the costs continue to skyrocket.

Facts???

People keep parroting things like "Piracy is having a massive impact" and "costs associated with making a video game have skyrocketed" and other suppositions and labeling them facts in defense of this goat rodeo.

And yet not a single person has ever offered actual figures on things like this.

Here's a fact for ya. I can't play the game I paid for!