Reminder to forum members

[martes86]

Originally Posted by Lapazeus

Well, surprisingly many.

For example, Maddox Games is slowly getting out of business because of piracy. When the first IL-game was published every fifth person used a pirated version. In 2004, 60% of Forgotten Battles+Ace Expansion Pack players used a pirated version.

Those figures are quite staggering actually.

DRM is just a result of publishers panicking - they need to do something to fight piracy. It is obviously flawed in many ways, but there is a reason for it.

Well, aircraft sims have much more of an audience, so, many more people are possibly going to pirate it. Besides, such high numbers lead me to the conclusion that those "pirates" aren't hardcore simmers (which usually do indeed support their developers' work), but the so called "casual players", and that's where the piracy index are higher. Hardcore are usually much more informed about the effects of piracy on their favourite titles, so they buy everything they can, whilist casuals just play for random fun, but don't really care what happens next to the title.

About DRM being the result of panic, I totally agree with that.

Cheers