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Originally Posted by Thanakil

I do think the stupid copy protection comes from the publisher, I think that it was confirmed to be the case with Bioshock. The game was already lucky to be "alive" since no-one wanted to take the risk and let it be develop, so it wasn't that surprising to see the publisher take no risk and put some crappy protection on it, to try and be "safe". Even if in the end they hindered the sales more than anything with it.

so why do you keep saying they "hindered the sales" by including copyright protection?

i believe someone mentioned that 1 game had a copyprotection that froze the PC if people tried to pirate it, and their message board was flooded with problems from piraters, so the real users didn't buy the games because they thought it was glitchy...

but i don't really see any other ways that copy protection can hinder the sales.

except for whats happening now with teh "every 10 days must re-register" or w/e.

but b4 this, its usually just a 1 time thing, which should really prevent sales...