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Yes and no. People don't pirate PS5 games not because Sony's service is so good, but because the device is so secure that piracy is virtually impossible on it,
by FirmwareBurner 3y ago
Yes and no.
People don't pirate PS5 games not because Sony's service is so good, but because the device is so secure that piracy is virtually impossible on it, so getting games the legal way is also the only way.
The PC was and still is, way too open for that to be achievable, though they have tried with various malware DRM, including Sony. With the PC being so open, it became a battleground to competition, which led to prices being so low.
- junon 3y agoEhhhh I don't think DRM is why Steam is succeeding. By that logic, GoG should have taken over. I think Gabe's original assessment is mostly correct - making things easily obtainable is more important than making them free.
- FirmwareBurner 3y ago>Ehhhh I don't think DRM is why Steam is succeeding. I never claimed that DRM was the only reason. >making things easily obtainable is more important than making them free No, it's because of competition. The PC being so open and not locked down to a single entity who can engage in rent-seeking like the console vendors, means not just piracy but an unlimited ways and sources you can get media on the device which means competition, which drives down prices.
- robertlagrant 3y agoRent-seeking seems a silly term here. If you just mean "charging a fortune" then there are other consoles to buy. And consoles are luxury goods, so if they get too expensive people just won't buy them in the first place.
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoI beg to differ. Piracy and mod-chips on earlier consoles was rampant (in my country). Anyone I knew with a PS2 had it 'chipped' and only had pirated games because the price of the console (which was also a DVD player) was more easily digestible than the price of original games which came at huge mark-ups to compensate for the console HW which were sold at a loss in the eerier stages.
- robertlagrant 3y agoI don't understand; how is selling a console at a loss "rent-seeking"?
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoI never said that nor was that my point. You're connecting unrelated dots from my arguments.
- robertlagrant 3y agoI'm trying to make what you're saying make sense. I said I don't think rent-seeking is a good term for this. You begged to differ.
- wink 3y agoJust little QoL things can make or break it. Steam: Is kinda reasonable with keeping me logged in ON MY OWN DAMN HARDWARE. Ubisoft Connect: Hi, it's you. You seem to have a different IP after your ISP's 24h disconnect. PLEASE LOG IN to play this single player game. But then you have companies like Square Enix where their website process to buy a game was so convoluted that people went to Steam just because it was 5 clicks and not 50.