Football Manager Devs Hire More Staff Thanks to DRM

Baresark

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Ummm, Steam DRM is cracked like clockwork. There is a chance that, you know, that many people just bought your product because they liked it... weird, I know.

There is of course a chance that some sales were increased by there being no pirated version for a couple of weeks, but no one really has any way of telling that. But I'm willing to bet that it wasn't pirated because pirates weren't interested in the game, not because of some crazy new DRM they used (which is neither crazy or new). Those groups of crackers don't do it for public release, but it always leaks from them to the public. They do it for themselves and other groups. But they are falling into that logical fallacy where people will universally pirate it given the chance or that a pirated copy is a lost sale.

Really, it sounds like they had low expectations for their game. And now they are thinking in flawed terms about what their actual sales means.
 

finiii

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I'd just like to point out that the game has been available on steam since the 09 version, but last year was the first time it used steamworks exclusively. So it's not just down to it suddenly becoming available on the platform, as some people in this thread are assuming.

As for hats, I really really hope that isn't the reason :p

Edit: also, third top seller on steam behind Assassins Creed 3 and Black Ops 2, a niche game? I suppose football is the worlds largest niche then. ;)
 

CardinalPiggles

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Those people that bought the game brand new in the first couple of weeks most likely would have done so with or without the ability to pirate the game. Naivety.

Also, as people have said, bringing your game to Steam; sales spike. Including promotions; bigger sales spike.

"We beat the piracy!", yeah right...
 

Zombie_Moogle

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If no one cracked the game, I imagine it really speaks more to the lack of interest in said game, in my opinion
 

lancar

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If the only DRM it used was steams built-in one, I can't imagine the game not being cracked on day1 on account of difficulty because steam DRM seems to be nothing less than a joke to break at this point.
If difficulty isn't an issue, it's just the cracker groups being completely uninterested in the game that prevents a crack from coming out.

If, however, the game IS hard to crack then the DRM is probably so intrusive that some customers go "fooled me once, shame on you...." and not buy the sequel.
 

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Frankly, when we're seeing dev studios been shut down left right and centre, I think it's a pleasant change for a developer to be able to actually hire more people, regardless of whether the reasons are what they say they are or they got the wrong idea + it's a bit of naivety from a dev team that only puts out one game a year who never had a game on Steam's DRM before. Either way, I don't mind, they're doing well + power to 'em.
 

chadachada123

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elexis said:
The sales for this game must be a lot larger than I thought possible, piracy or otherwise. Must be an american culture thing.
I would tend to think it's actually because of Europe that sales of this game are high.

It's Europe that has a mad fever for the FIFA games, for example. In the US it's American Football, not soccer, that's (far, far) more popular.

I can search for numbers, since I admit that I'm not entirely certain, but that's what I'd imagine to be true, at least.

Edit: On topic, I definitely think that it's Steam, not the lack of piracy, that is accounting for all of the increased sales. Having a TF2 promotion would also be a massive increase in sales, obviously.
 

KeyMaster45

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Sir Ollie said:
Plumerou said:
because it didnt have anything to do with the TF2 promotion with the fancy shoes and fancy scarf that it came with, seriously if they really think it was because of the DRM they are understimating the worlds biggest hat simulator.
Pretty much this. In a game where people spend thousands of dollars for a virtual hat on fire. You think $60 will set them back?



Steam games are easily cracked as any other form of DRM.
I just had a "stupid American" moment. I couldn't figure out why there was a soccer ball in that picture when the game was about football. Then the light came on in my head and I felt really stupid.

OT: Yes, two weeks of piracy free sales, in exchange for a lifetime of your game inconveniencing legitimate users. Between consumer and producer though, I wouldn't tell that to any Vulcans; logic like that is known to give them aneurisms.
 

SextusMaximus

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Glad to see more developers but, nope all DRM is crackable, Steam is just pretty awesome.
 

JarinArenos

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Try releasing with stand-alone DRM and not being on Steam and see how your sales fare, rocks-for-brains...