Yes ads are served by a third party that pays the hosting site money for the ads. The free news letter you can’t magically block the ads from physically appearing. In the real world it would be like going to the news paper office and deleting all the ads before it is printed. In a website the ad-blocker prevents ads…

My density is approximately 985 kg/m^3. (humans are mostly water)

Pragmatically I don’t care about DRM-lite type solutions that don’t affect the game. If they don’t require periodic online activation or any other bullshit anti-tamper DRM technology with complex VM protections or other insanely complex software solutions to prevent modification of the game engine. The thing pisses me…

How do you even know that 3 million people read it. In this bizzaro world of DRM free books (the entire book market is in plain text so book sales should exactly one per million according to that logic).

Software piracy is copying. Ad-blocking is the internet equivalent of theft as you use a website’s resources without actually “paying” for it so that the entity receives a direct monetary loss due to your “theft” of compute time and network resources.

Strange because books always had this weakness yet people still buy them. Did authors start encrypting the text? Making the paper retro-reflective and harder to photocopy? No they didn’t and sales only moved to amazon and many people still prefer real books.

This is just their false advertising argument for why you should pay the big bucks for their not so good DRM technology.

They already have that from Nvidia at 25 dollars for 20 hours or something. Problem is no one is going to pay that much money so its a economically infeasible idea.

Your throwing baseless conjecture is what your doing. You can’t even put a figure on what the losses are and claim that it is “high enough”.

Compared to you and the other poster I’m the only one with hard data to back it up. So sure you can claim my official Nintendo sales numbers showing no negative effect from DRM failure is an “imaginary world” but that doesn’t actually make you correct especially since you have no hard data to show otherwise.

The basic principles logic is very simple pirates are people who want a game for free or next to nothing. They may not even have the money to pay for it anyways so you will never capture that market segment (0% conversion rate). No need sales figures as if a person doesn’t have the money or doesn’t want to spend money…

You do realise you also said you buy games when dirt cheap. Lets break down your own words for you.

Problem with that logic which I already poked a million holes into it is that when you make intrusive DRM and hurt tons of customers you lose them and lots of them. That makes your game bomb financially and there are many examples of it even entire platforms have been stunted by intrusive or unwanted DRM (xbox one had…

Your only buy games when cheap is a pretty common aspect and another reason why timed DRM protection is completely useless as the games are not discounted at that time and many sales do occur once the game gets discounted later on. Your basically just proving my point even more that DRM at launch is also useless as if…

Again companies are big groups of people which makes them slow to respond in many cases. Constantly patching a failed DRM solution is typical behaviour because that is what they have always been doing it takes a lot of time to change that kind of corporate inertia and the best way is by showing how it is harming their…

Your talking about group think and are literally falling into the trap of group think itself by saying there is nothing you can do to change publisher’s mind and as a single consumer you mean basically nothing to them. (Both points are wrong since you can leave negative feedback and your lost sale is a lost sale)

All the games that sell very well on GoG are also an exception I guess as well? Those are also all DRM free titles.

The 3DS has long been cracked and the patches don’t do anything once the crack is applied (Arguably it just makes pirates goto the used hardware market as there are tons of pre-owned old firmware version consoles out there depriving Nintendo of a hardware sale by their own action). Actions don’t have to be logical you…

Sorry but your wrong again,

You do know Steam DRM is just paying lip service to DRM wanting companies. It has been cracked for ages yet steam games still sell very well. Strange don’t you think it is almost as if the DRM to check a box off.