Sure in this case. But the publisher see the game is being pirated a week before launch, then take harder measures. Next game will be online only and it hurts only those who pay for the game, while the pirates pirate it in a hacked form. I am talking about general, not this specific case only, in case it was not clear. Even if the game was uploaded by accident, pirates still pirate and share the game. And that’s the problem all publisher see and take hard DRM measures.
You can downvote me as you want, I am not the one who puts DRM into the games. I am not the publisher.
For the record I didn’t downvote you but I personally don’t agree since if the publisher isn’t going to be listening to logical reasoning anyways, then if this didn’t happen, they’d just use a different excuse to do it.
That said, for this game at least, given that this is a Microsoft game, doesn’t it already require a Microsoft account to play?
The Steam page does not list a requirement such as a Microsoft account. But it will probably require one. But doesn’t look like a real problem for hacker to get around it, if it even requires one. I assume its only required for online features, but I don’t know.
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Sure in this case. But the publisher see the game is being pirated a week before launch, then take harder measures. Next game will be online only and it hurts only those who pay for the game, while the pirates pirate it in a hacked form. I am talking about general, not this specific case only, in case it was not clear. Even if the game was uploaded by accident, pirates still pirate and share the game. And that’s the problem all publisher see and take hard DRM measures.
You can downvote me as you want, I am not the one who puts DRM into the games. I am not the publisher.
For the record I didn’t downvote you but I personally don’t agree since if the publisher isn’t going to be listening to logical reasoning anyways, then if this didn’t happen, they’d just use a different excuse to do it.
That said, for this game at least, given that this is a Microsoft game, doesn’t it already require a Microsoft account to play?
The Steam page does not list a requirement such as a Microsoft account. But it will probably require one. But doesn’t look like a real problem for hacker to get around it, if it even requires one. I assume its only required for online features, but I don’t know.