| It won't stop people from pirating, and it will cost sales$$ Their attempt will be futile and will actually DECREASE sales. There are those who believe that such a system is invasive and opens your computer to privacy theft. Therefore they will NOT buy the game, either on principle or fear of having their computer hacked. Lost sales.
The next issue is whether it will stop piracy of the game : it won't. To have a system like this in place, the computer will interrupt CPU tasks to check the key, go out to the internet, make sure it is legit, and then get a response stating its a legit copy.
First of all, that's a waste of resources on your computer, your internet connection, etc. But it still won't stop the pirates. They simply check the assemby code for this call/response routine and patch so it always thinks its getting a valid response (if yes then continue, if no shut down will always get a YES). You can affect this call/response routine in several places.
Its a fairly simple patch. |
