Has Piracy finally been beaten?

Guys, I think it's game over for us. What do you think?

Kill yourself.

well for starters I bought a copy of Doom Ultimate Edition back when they still sold shit on CDs. Windows 8 wouldn't read the install file when I finally got around to trying to install it on that machine so honestly I refuse to pay for Doom on the PC.

Secondly this stupid conversation gets brought up EVERY YEAR. Media outlets hate software bootlegging (it's not piracy unless you're wearing an eyepatch) to the point where they made up a 'sinister' sounding name to try and make it scary. They take down torrenting hubs and then get surprised when another one pops up in a couple of months.

You can't stop piracy unless you engage in some kind of orwellian police state where every action is monitored.

>some kind of orwellian police state where every action is monitored
So, Windows 10 then

there's a reason w10 was free

Yeah, and it has nothing to do with orwellian dictatorship. Huxley is more on point in this case, since they are datamining us all for profit and people who buy our data want to exploit our consumerism.

Darkest color feline.

>Im not too experient in this
op, this isn't ylyl, i want my sides back.

He's implying that new releases are worth playing.

FUCK OFF GAFF SHITTER

> What do you think?
That you are an idiot wasting your time showing how big of one you are.

This guy is following teenagers, creepy desu

>before
Kid didn't buy game, pirated it

>now
Kid still didn't buy game, can't pirate it

Video games are saved!

This desu

>developers think anti-piracy will force people to buy their shit game day 1, rather than refuse to buy it after trying it out and seeing how bad it is
>in actuality, people are starting to realise that it isn't advantageous to buy a game before seeing how it is

All these review embargoes and the absence of demos is pathetic. Clearly displays just how confident in the game quality these devs are.

The difference is the latter turns into a potential sale eventually if the pull is good enough.

The fact that people would decide to play it means they COULD be a sale.
Plus it's not just about sales, it's the fact that people are getting something that isn't for free for free when legit buyers are spending money for the same thing.

>The difference is the latter turns into a potential sale eventually
The difference here is informed consumers rarely buy any product without trying it out beforehand. I, for instance, and never, ever going to buy D44M at this rate, because I simply don't know if it would run well on my PC. If I could pirate it, and it ran well, I would have bought it a long time ago.

Not so without a free and easy way to test it out. This is especially smarting nowadays, when games are often unfinished, unoptimised fucking messes on release.

No
Never
It's not happening

Fortunately

>pirates never ever buy games
Is this what publishers actually believe? Or is it just that a pirated copy is a negative sale, so even if they buy it afterwards it only comes back up to 0?

>when another one pops up in a couple of months.

you mean in a couple of hours. When KAT went down a few weeks ago there were several new KATs up within a day.

No. Eventually, any and every system will be cracked. It just takes time and effort.

However, the pirates are also part of the problem, as they provoke publishers into adopting these draconian security measures that cripple legitimately purchased games.

>Neogaf

Literally kill yourself.

>(it's not piracy unless you're wearing an eyepatch)

i hope more people believe this
so piracy can go back to be obscure

>Denuvoshills literally resorting to NeoGAF to defend their broken system

I already bought INSIDE but ill pirate it and play it again just to remind you what happened that glorious day

Stay mad and stay irrelevant

Piracy has been made unnecessary since there are no good games.

>Neogaf
Fucking sonyggers should be banned.

You do know that there is a demo for Doom?

>piracy
>obscure

you literally fucking what, piracy was even more rampant back in the days of floppies and stuff before there was any sort of DRM when you could just take your disk to a buddy's house and literally just copy the contents to their computer

>I then searched other recently release games and got the same answer
Must have been looking for some shitty games because that's all that uses Denuvo so far.

More like piracy lost its motivation. Most people pirated because it was more convenient than buying, and had better tech support, but now digital distribution has gotten good and the only people left are children who cannot afford games.

This is pretty accurate. I'd still rather pirate a game than buy it but nowdays buying is very easy and the support is much reliable.

Yeah, plus like weeks to 2 months max after launch most games go below 30€ (some even before launch), that's hwn I buy them if I really want to play them, otherwise waiting for the next sale (or a crack)

>The difference is the latter turns into a potential sale eventually if the pull is good enough.
I typically buy my pirated games that I really liked when I can afford it. My steam account has over 70 games of exactly that

I will never buy a denuvo game out of principle. The technology is not just anti-piracy but anti-consumer

is his avatar implying PS4 is an inferior console?

that's a banning

you're retarded, they've been paying scene groups not to crack denuvo since day one, there's always been a "SUPER DUPER UNCRACKABLE DRM", denuvo just happens to be the latest shit

a shame since theres been some good games behind it like new doom

you dont need a tinfoil hat to see that w10 is literally satan

Basically this, but thanks to how fucked copyright law is piracy is more or less a thing that happens exclusively outside of the US now. There's no reason for Americans to pirate things as they can get them. Try getting a new release of a videogame (especially an uncensored one) in Germany on the same day Americans do. Or try importing a PS4 into Brazil or China. Even Canadians still don't get Netflix's full catalog.

It'll still be around forever. It's one of the few things that people can count on.

People who don't want to pay money for things will find a way to not pay money for things. The games industry is bigger than it has ever been and growing. Sure, there are people who would probably buy a game if they couldn't torrent it, but the amount of people like that is probably negligible. Most pirates weren't going to pay for it either way. What I've never understood was once you've built your $400-$xxxx gaming computer, why all the sudden does the idea of paying for goods seem to outlandish to people? Especially when PC games are cheaper than they've ever been? I you don't want to pay full price for a game, then don't. It's not like there's an entire back catalogue of amazing games you haven't played to fill the time before the flavor of the week AAA game is $4.99 on steam. I just think clicking "add to cart" followed by "confirm purchase" is a lot easier than pirating. And if money is an issue just go get an old 360 of something for fifty bucks and a stack of games to keep you busy for a while at a couple of bucks a pop. I used to pirate a lot when I was younger, tediously downloading 40 part .rar PS1 games at 16kbs so I could wait and hour while the disc burned at 4x. I just think it's more trouble than it's worth. Why not just do something else until you can afford the game?