So they've won, they effectively killed piracy

So they've won, they effectively killed piracy.

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sure

Yeah, no

Doesn't change anything. Pirates don't buy games. If I can't pirate it I just won't play it. Guess they can't blame it for poor sales anymore though

No but this may:
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This

Many pirates can't actually afford the base game

shit. I was going away for a while and wanted to pile up on shit.

Bad games killed piracy because I really couldn't even be bothered to go to a tracker and waste 6gb on garbage.

OW is the only game I bought recently.

kickass will be missed.

is gone? i was looking for old school stronghold crusader

Yeah. Feds arrested the guy and shut it down.

YES TAKE THE PIRATES!
NOW YOU'LL JUST
uh
not buy the game

ah shit. every other torrent site is so ghetto I dont understand how there cant be a single one with a decent layout jesus christ

Unironic thanks to denuvo!

you can just not buy the game, because there are other games to pirate
but what when there are no games to pirate anymore?

We are finding out today.

Don't buy the games?
Personally I don't pirate games, if I wouldn't pay for a game I wouldn't play it.

>arrested today in Poland on behalf of the US, which has requested his extradition for crimes related to running the site.

Thanks America

Fucking thanks America. Devs, bloated studios, and overpriced software merchants will go on not making sales from people who wouldn't have bought it and gaining sales from people who've been able to try and spread the word.

>but what when there are no games to pirate anymore?
Move on, like we did with movies.

I can afford to pay the MSRP but I refuse to do so on principal.

I'll wait for it to hit at least 60% off before I pull the trigger on a game but that's only if it looks like I'll really enjoy it or I hear/see great things about it.

The exception is maybe Gears of War 4 and Titanfall 2; they both look cash as fuck and I enjoy their franchises.

Gotta indulge every once in a while.

Oh but anyways, I'll pirate what I can or wait if I can't.

Winter is coming.

yep, they killed game franchises as well since many of them had their sales sink to all time lows since people didn't even know they were released.

lets face it, many games are so mediocre that they actually require piracy for a jump-start.

Guys, the laws and technology are finally catching up.

The good ol' days are over.

Much like real pirates; nothing lasts forever.

>Poland so cucked, they catch murrican criminals for them.
5th partition when?

For all of 15 games, yes.

Ukraine producing heroes just for Poland to betray them to America.

there are still real pirates tho

Honestly I feel like I have to agree, I really wanted to pirate just cause 3 to see if it would be worth buying. Never got cracked, and I eventually lost interest.
Farcry 4 got cracked, I played it and didn't like it, so I'm glad I didn't waste 60 bucks on a game I wouldn't have enjoyed.

until a couple of weeks ago i didn't even know the new Mirror's edge and the new Farcry were even out yet.

well done denuvo, you're killing bad games.

Okay well the golden age of vidya piracy is over.

Just like what happened with pirating music and then movies.

Hell, I steal everything I know I can get away with in real life.

Not for the thrill, just because I can.

nobody thinks of poor somalis when you say pirates, they think of treasure island

But I already pirated around 7 DENUVO games.

I hope that Shillary become president

When each gen only has 20 or 30 worth playing, that is significant.

>3016 - 1000
>still torrenting

you can still pirate music and movies just fine

THAT'S LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE, STOP LYING

DELET THIS

>Just like what happened with pirating music and then movies

Are you on dope?

if he can get a good lawyer and this isn't just a hopeless witch hunt(which i'm sure it is) then he will get off because damn, the guy ran a website, he didn't distribute anything

would be like arresting a guy because he told you who you could buy weed from

>would be like arresting a guy because he told you who you could buy weed from
if you profit from that i'm pretty sure it's illegal
at least that is how it works with prostitution

Don't worry, I'm sure they can 'find' some cp on his computer if nothing else sticks

But it's not
Several Denuvo games are cracked, it just takes around 6-8 months

All in a days work. You'll all have to buy my games now.

>you will never pirate Todd's game for the 9th time

shit, I haven't even pirated fallout 4
And nothing I've seen has convinced me to even search for the torrent
Ah well

Sorry Todd, but I already pirated F4 around ten thousand times, making you literally lose those sales.

Well they took down Kickass didn't they?

There will always be a Lich....way to pirate shit via private trackers.

It's just going to make it harder for regular jackoffs to pirate shit.

Today I will remind them

>it just takes around 6-8 months
that's all that's needed to stop the bulk of pirates that would consider buying the game anyway

cutting off the head of the snake doesn't make it go away. KaT will be back again

>thinking kat will actually go down
It has gone down multiple times in the past, you can not stop the pirates

>PC Master Race

How has this affected sales

I'm not worried about piracy long term. I was just hoping on it being there for tomorrow.

I've got plenty of games loaded up right now, but more wouldn't hurt.

>You'll all have to buy my games now.
No I won't.

Fallout 4 is shit, by the way.

Good thing I'm not among them then
I can deal with waiting 8 months, or even a year or two
Considering Gen 7, I can't believe people aren't used to PC ports getting released even two fucking years later, this is pretty much the same

Yeah, if you can keep the pirates away for the first month or two then you've pretty much won.

You're next scumbag. My long dick of the law will reach you too.

>“Vaulin is charged with running today’s most visited illegal file-sharing website, responsible for unlawfully distributing well over $1 billion of copyrighted materials.”
Are niggas serious?

And, as we have seen thanks to Steamspy, all Denuvo games have had mediocre sales.
In fact, only MGSV surpassed 1 million sales, and it did so recently because it fell down to $30, and to $20 during sales.

Bring it, bitch boy.

I'm going to enjoy you giving me Skyrim: Special Edition for free.

By the way, I own New Vegas legit.

>over $1 billion of copyrighted materials
That's like 20 million games.

MGSV was cracked a week after release

Yes....
YES.

Piracy is a customer problem. Be part of the solution.

Those people should go full indie.

Let's see what kind evolution would happen with the born of PC peasants, what buys only indie because it is cheaper than AAA games.

Also I am an PC peasant since I bough MN9 because it was affordable and cheap.

youtube.com/watch?v=NWhTLvNEYbQ

And here we have the developers of TW3 talking about how the solution to piracy is eliminating the DRM.
Of course, their game sold about 3 million copies on PC, much more than any Denuvo game will ever sell.
Quality sells, not anti-piracy measures.

yet he didn't distribute a single one

can law enforcement go after google now for distributing links to pirated materials now?

dark times ahead, TPP and related acts are kicking in

Piracy is a service problem. Be part of the solution by making games that don't suck dick.

>n PC peasant since I bough MN9 because it was affordable and cheap
No, you're the actual PCuck salty console fags are referring to. Peasants just have shitty AAA + Source game aligned taste.

>its a "pirates are poorfags" thread again

Yes and no
I'd imagine a lot of people pirate at first if they're unsure whether it's worth it (so if they don't know if it's a quality game)
With W3 it's already a well known franchise so people know what they're getting into buying it

>look at games denuvo protects
>the only game I would even play is total warhammer
Yeah, its not cracked yet because people noticed that it's not really worth it.

You're on the wrong side of history.

Make America great again and buy retail.

>Literally only denuvo game worth buying is DOOM
>MUH VICTORY

>doom

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reminder that CDPR sent letters with threats to people who pirated Twitcher 2

as if people didn't pirate good games

Literally just pirated onechanbara like a week ago.

Sure. They killed it unless you're a weeb.

>mfw it will be at least 10 years before elevens figure out anti piracy software

>just cause 3
>has denuvo
>Owners: 669,551 ± 21,296
>Witcher 3
>no DRM
>10 Million copies sold

They do, but pirating a good game is more likely to result in that game being bought than pirating a shitty game.

FIFA is a Denuvo protected series now, prepared to be put down

most witcher sales are on console

>FIFA is a Denuvo title
>No change in sales

People always say that, but I find it extremely hard to believe that any significant portion of pirates buy games afterwards.

yea I got one of those letters, when I installed the el amigoes version not 3 days later I got a letter in the mail from CDPR telling me that if i didn't uninstall that pirated copy they would kill my dog

i was terrified so I uninstalled the game but then I realized I don't have a dog and you lost the game

Conclusion? Make good games

Nobody gives a shit about sports games on PC.

>TFW Pirating games to use them as Demo versions
>Buy it if i like it or delete it if not
Well. guess im not going to buy vidya from now on

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Still sold 3 million on PC.

are you implying it didn't happen?
because it did, they admitted to doing it

torrentfreak.com/0-more-on-content-than-honest-consumers-130510/
torrentfreak.com/riaa-pirates-are-bigger-music-fans-than-average-consumers-121113/
consumersfederation.org.au/new-choice-research-reveals-the-two-biggest-drivers-of-piracy/

Again and again research has shown that pirates spend more on media more frequently than legitimate customers.

As someone who used to pirate games and has known people who pirate games, that's just what apologists like to say

>Witcher 3

YOU BASTARD, BETTER PAY UP RIGHT NOW.

What you believe is irrelevant.
Half my Steam library are games I haven't played because I had my fun with them when I pirated them.

3dm cracked return of the tomb raider and just cause 3

>torrentfreak.com/
>research
very credible, faggot

Didn't realize movies had uncracked DRM. What the hell have I been watching?

>Pirating Witcher 3