Really, CDV is going belly up? They must have been too late with changing their copy protection policy because they were the ones effected most by the bad press about SF and how they as a company handled that. Simply ignoring it and deleting bad press about it on their boards, kinda like you guys. Next to that their overall support sucks, they should have hired someone like you to stay in touch with the community, :thumbup: on that point for you guys. (do you have any link about cdv?)

Why should you distance yourself from your intelectual property? I am not at all supporting the theft of that, I just oppose the way copyprotection affects paying customers and the absolutely discusting responses they get from developers and sf themselves, if they report any problems with cp's they didn't ask for.

Feel free to make games in your basement if you feel like that, I won't stop you. Mods have been made for free online for ages and the net is full of free games. Just browse trough gh's demosection and you'll find dozens. But most games will continue to be made by pro's who get paid for a good game, and as long as the game is good people will buy just because they want the original or legit onlineplay or just no hazzzle when they get an update. Have some faith in that instead of blaming piracy for low salesfigures. Perhaps you should look at your game itself if it isn't selling well instead off blaming external factors. (not that I am saying that your game isn't selling well, I honestly don't know. Just an example)

Edit: oh, and I truly believe addicting games like wow badly damage the pcgames market. Those addicts hardly buy and play other games.

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