No, its not just you, modern day games are aimed at a different generation. All shooters have become call of dooty, all RPGs have become bland emo trips, challenges have disappeared, quality dropped off a cliff and the makers don't care as people still go out and buy it.

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I think the reason publishers have created their own services is more so that they don't have to give up the usual ~30% cut taken by the likes of Steam, GOG etc. and to have more control post-sale

As if that hasn't been the case with Steam games for years already. Unless they use Denuvo as well, but from what I've heard that's costly to license & doesn't appear to have actually helped sales of games that use it despite it reliably hindering piracy

I think DRM doesn't help sales, in actual fact I think a lot of DRM actually harm sales. If you take the recent Simcity as a example, the DRM (always online) stopped a lot of potential customers from buying it, and a lot pirated it after the pirates defeated EA's DRM.

I know I have a few Store bought DVD games that I've yet to open and install from my legal copy, as most of the times the pirate edition without the DRM works better that the one with DRM, and I believe we will see it applied to The Big D when it finally gets cracked

Well I know for a fact that it costs them at least some sales, as I refuse to buy anything that uses Denuvo/Origin/UPlay. I wouldn't even accept them if they were free - I'd rather buy DRM-free copies. I'll tolerate Steam, but only at a deep discount (and I never gift Steam games).

From what we've seen so far the best case seems to be that sales with Denuvo remain about the same as without, which still leaves them worse off because they then also have the added cost of licensing & royalties for using Denuvo.


I'm certain this will be the case, most likely to a comparable extent as for SecuROM as it's made by the same people and works in a similar manner.