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Epic Games Admits In Court That Its PC Store Still Isn't Profitable (kotaku.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And in turn diminished the industry's piracy problm for many years, making PC Games market a stable ecosystem instead of letting all of PC gaming die.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

No? Cracks were created for that too

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Yes? How can you possibly deny that? Steam was able to claw a market in russia, a country famous for piracy. Gaben was right, convenience with good prices trumps everything.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Sure, cracks still exist, but I've stopped downloading them in favour of buying off Steam because the user experience was a lot better. I'm sure I can't be the only one to do this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Before Steam existed i would even crack games I had legitimate copies of solely because pre-Steam DRM was such an enormous pain in the ass to deal with.

Even today Denuvo is a veritable paradise compared to what DRM used to be like.