How to make consumers not want to buy your product

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yet you failed to post how the 2 people "arguing" are friends and do this a lot on twitter

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also ps he has a few good points

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People who advocate DRM are either
a) Clueless
-or-
b) Have an ulterior motive

Because DRM certainly does not combat piracy. What it does do is severely inconvenience and punish legitimate users. In fact, because of that, DRM actually encourages piracy. Anyone who disagrees with this is either uninformed or just plain wrong (likely both).


Person A buys a DRM'd product. Product falsely flags as "pirated" for any number of reasons OR product installs malware/spyware and damages Person A's machine or makes it vulnerable OR Person A's hard drive died (or any other computer component died) so after replacing the one part (same computer), DRM'd product refuses to install/run since any minor hardware component has changed and is expected to re-buy DRM'd product OR DRM company decides to discontinue product support or to force upgrades -- it no longer works or everyone has to re-buy - not for a legitimate reason - but pretty much because the company decided to arbitrarily lock you out.

Person B pirates an otherwise DRM'd product. Pirate's version has no DRM. It just works.

DRM encourages piracy. But instead of pirating DRM'd products (which just encourages more DRM since business executives can't get it through their thick skulls that DRM DOES NOT stop piracy or even help in the slightest - in fact the opposite), it is better to forego them and encourage other people to forego them as well.

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This seems relevant.

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this is an outrage

i'm never buying anything from microsoft ever again

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He doesn't make any good points, cell phones have always required a connection from the get go, everything fucking requires electricity(sorry for the language) and those both have nothing to do with the next gen console. If you want to play a single player game (which by the way about 35% of the gaming community is a single player only type of gamer, why force them to put more money forth for a decent connection or give up using your console completely? You're alienating at least 15% of your customer base just by that, then you're gonna have confused parents buying their kids these consoles (possibly not knowing about this whole "always connected" BS) and there's going to be more problems to follow.

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Alright alright, we can put down the pitchforks for now. I just saw this one here.





Basically made the mistake of having fun talking shit in a public arena instead of just keeping it to a private convo. But let us not forget the looming spectre of the always-on console!

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Whether it's a troll-convo or not, it's indistinguishable from the reality that too many companies are loading their media with DRM bullshit that punishes the honest and doesn't stop the dishonest.

Also the arguments are shit anyway because things that require electricity require them. Games don't require DRM. It's artificially tacked-on after the fact.