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[–] yote_zip@pawb.social 40 points 9 months ago (6 children)

I knew there was something wrong when my pirated copies of these games suddenly started vanishing from my hard drive! Curse you, DRM!

~ What the execs think will happen, I guess? What is the point of applying DRM to a game that has already released?

[–] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 30 points 9 months ago (4 children)

My guess is it's basically a beta test of the DRM that they're going to roll out for future games. Y'know... instead of testing in-house, just test on your consumers.

[–] yote_zip@pawb.social 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Possibly, though I suspect that releasing your new DRM early is a good way to have it broken by the time you actually want to protect something with it.

One can only hope :P

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