![]() It has to be, otherwise the entire premise behind their actions falls apart. These industries tend to conjure up huge loss numbers year after year to justify DRM, always-online requirements and a general push for more anti-piracy efforts (including legislation.) To them, every illegal download is a lost sale. This last sentence goes against the ingrained thinking of many in the content industries. Team Meat shows no loss in our year end totals due to piracy and neither should any other developer. As a forward thinking developer who exists in the present, I realize and accept that a pirated copy of a digital game does not equate to money being taken out of my pocket. We are closing in on 2 million sales and assuming a 10% piracy to sales ratio does not seem unreasonable. I think I can safely say that Super Meat Boy has been pirated at least 200,000 times. The first problem he sees with EA’s actions is its insistence on using intangible losses from piracy to shape its software development. (It’s a truly excellent post, and I would encourage you to click through and read the entire article.) ![]() Super Meat Boy developer Tommy Refenes has weighed in with his thoughts on EA’s open hostility towards its paying customers. Many gamers have pointed out the futility of these anti-piracy (and anti-cheating/hacking) efforts as well as unleashed their fury at being handed a worthless, broken-on-purpose product in exchange for their money.Īnd it’s not just angry customers making noise. It’s safe to say that EA has almost single-handedly run the good highly-tarnished name of DRM and internet-only requirements into the ground, finishing the job Diablo 3 began last year. ![]() The backlash has been enormous and EA is likely wishing it was back in the good old days when Spore (remember that backlash?) was nothing more than harmless vaporware. The wheels have now come completely off EA’s DRMobile, thanks to its botched SimCity launch that was marred by server issues, long lines at the refund counter and some amazingly bad coding, all held together by Maxis GM Lucy Bradshaw’s irrepressible bullshit-spinning. ![]()
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