View Article – Opinion: Why You Should Pay for Free
Andrew Doull makes some interesting points, but he lost me with this bit:
In addition, World of Goo was pirated approximately 90 percent of the time because it was unencumbered by DRM.
He goes on to say:
The reason it wasn’t 100 percent is that enough people cared about the game and the developers to want them to profit from their endeavors, even though those same consumers could have got the game for free.
The latter part I can agree with, although it’s debatable whether those who illegally downloaded WoG would have paid for it were it not available for free download (illegally).
What is mind boggling is how this guy is a game developer and doesn’t realize that DRM doesn’t work. How would have DRM stopped WoG from being illegally downloaded?
It wouldn’t have. Instead, it would have increased the number of times it was downloaded without payment to 2D Boy out of spite.
Did you know that Spore was the most illegally downloaded game of 2008?
Did you realize that it contains SecuROM 7, one of the most insidious forms of PC DRM out there?
Andrew evidently doesn’t.
