The video game industry's best-of-class DRM is routinely cracked in less than 24 hours

[Daaksyde]

@adonai

Sure, but there’s a limited window where people will pay $60 for a game, at which point they then tend to go “oh, I’ll wait for it to drop to $5 at the next Steam sale”.

@Ryuthrowsstuff

Apparently digital sales, And steam in particular, have actually exasperated or brought back that dynamic more recently.

That kinda makes sense. It is an odd dynamic though. It’s more like movies banking everything on their ‘opening weekend’ sales. Other software doesn’t work that way. Imagine if Photoshop or Microsoft Office had planned their business on only selling for a week and then packed it in to go do something else. (Never mind business software that runs for many years or even decades with year over year growth in sales.)