An Interview with Oleg

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Originally Posted by Untamo

I think the anti-piracy methods are unnecessary.

Pirates will pirate, there is no stopping it. Trying to enforce pirates to buy is just futile, 1C shouldn't consider them as their market

1C should be saving their money from spending on anti-piracy, and use it for development and such. The only thing anti-piracy does, is make honest buyers suffer.

piracy is a real problem, even if it is just friends at school making copies of games for each other, it all adds up in lost sales.

but the biggest problem is the real mafiosi who have organized networks for marketing pirated software, and it is bigger business to them then dope smuggling or women trafficking and their subsequent prostitution. piracy is BIG money ! this then gets sold openly to the public in 2e and 3e world countries in stores ( for ex even 90% of all chinese government computers actually use pirated OS and office programs), while in 1e world countries it is sold at markets and from car boots or down the pub. those really are the major thefts oleg needs to protect against (just like any other game designer), and a decent protection is needed for it.