Ubisoft comments on new DRM (will lower/prevent piracy?)

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Originally Posted by Highbury

I was told in the Helosim section that ROF has not been cracked because the market for it is so small that nobody has bothered. I think with all of the people who played IL-2, ROF would have had a bigger potential market then a Sub sim. If the "hacking/cracking/pirating" community could not be arsed to crack a game like ROF, I think the odds of a large effort to crack SHV will be slight.

I was going to buy ROF until I heard about the DRM and then I decided not to. Since I both enjoy flight sims and am interested in WWI aviation I would imagine that I am a member ROF's target market.

So the DRM added to ROF prevented at least one sale. I can't imagine I was the only person who did not buy because of the DRM.

On the other hand ROF has not been pirated yet. It would be interesting to know whether DRM actually lost or increased sales for ROF.