Patching in new DRM years after launch seems unlikely to impact pirates, but actively harms legitimate users who play on Steam Deck or mod games they paid for.
DRM doesn’t purge itself automatically. I don’t know how to spell it any clearer but if the problem is that DRM continues to exist, and it is solved when DRM is removed, then DRM itself is the problem.
And I speak as someone who lost my official purchase of Tron Evolution to outdated DRM.
I don’t think you are arguing in favor of cracking groups, as much as I’m appreciative of them.
I don’t know how to spell it any clearer but if the problem is that DRM continues to exist, and it is solved when DRM is removed, then DRM itself is the problem.
Once again you have it backwards. If the DRM is removed then the problem you cited never existed and there’s no problem to be solved.
And I speak as someone who lost my official purchase of Tron Evolution
I don’t understand what purpose your anecdotes are supposed to serve here.
I think you’re misunderstanding things. You trust these companies to do what is best for the consumer. That’s not how the rest of us, or the companies you’re defending, consider things. Their interest is in the bottom dollar. If screwing you makes a buck, they’ll do it. Trusting them to do the right thing is a major player in enshittification.
I mean of course they probably won’t, but again that is a problem with implementation and not an inherent problem with DRM.
It is an inherent problem with DRM, because if there was no DRM there wouldn’t be a possibility of this happening.
You have it backwards. It’s not an inherent problem of DRM because it’s not a requirement for it to have DRM forever.
DRM doesn’t purge itself automatically. I don’t know how to spell it any clearer but if the problem is that DRM continues to exist, and it is solved when DRM is removed, then DRM itself is the problem.
And I speak as someone who lost my official purchase of Tron Evolution to outdated DRM.
I don’t think you are arguing in favor of cracking groups, as much as I’m appreciative of them.
It doesn’t have to.
Once again you have it backwards. If the DRM is removed then the problem you cited never existed and there’s no problem to be solved.
I don’t understand what purpose your anecdotes are supposed to serve here.
I think you’re misunderstanding things. You trust these companies to do what is best for the consumer. That’s not how the rest of us, or the companies you’re defending, consider things. Their interest is in the bottom dollar. If screwing you makes a buck, they’ll do it. Trusting them to do the right thing is a major player in enshittification.
I think you’re misunderstanding things. I absolutely do not. Quite the opposite, actually. Hence why I said “of course they probably won’t”.