Pirates Convince Game Developer to Drop DRM

Mac Slocum
August 14, 2008 | | Comments (0) | Listen Speech Icon

"Why do people pirate my games?"

Game developer Cliff Harris recently posed this question on his blog and the onslaught of responses caught him (and his blog host) by surprise. Harris offers some interesting conclusions, but most notable is this passage on digital rights management (DRM):

People don't like DRM, we knew that, but the extent to which DRM is turning away people who have no other complaints is possibly misunderstood. If you wanted to change ONE thing to get more pirates to buy games, scrapping DRM is it. These gamers are the low hanging fruit of this whole debate.

Harris says his company will no longer use DRM on its games.

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