Glitterati3D posted at 6:33AM Sat, 05 October 2019 - #4365921

Personally, what I see is just punishing their core base who pays for the software. They certainly aren't preventing piracy - from gamers or anyone else.

Definitely not. A simple crack would just kill the phone home feature. Piracy users are never even bothered by such things, while paying customers are.

Honestly trying to block piracy feels like a lost battle to me, sadly. Do things like the way Steam does it instead - make people want to have the original, because of ease of use, great customer service, fair prices, easier updates, etc. Steam has gone public to state they don't have a piracy problem (of course it exists, but it's such a small scale that it doesn't hurt their business)

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