we don’t know that denuvo ACTUALLY impacts sale numbers by convincing those mean old pirates to buy their game

But we do know it improves sales, that’s why every game publisher that can afford it is using it. They have years of data to prove it. What do you have?

no offense

I will not ask my fellow lemmy community members to blindly trust me on this.

Ok, I don’t trust you.

DING DING DING. Here’s Facebook’s playbook:

1. Create close sourced ActivityPub implementation to federate with mastodon/lemmy and gain users.
2. Offer better experience than competition via exclusive features, reliability, more communities, etc.
3. Once enough users have been obtained, completely defederate from fediverse.

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