Your either a Buyer or a seller when it comes to goods being sold, A Vendor is a term used for someone you may frequenly buy from or sell too. End result is your either buying or selling. Now a non-buyer is someone who isn;'t planning on buying your product to begine with so why try and make up false numbers in regards to this.???
And Most forms of DRM are outragous. Keep it simple keep cost down, keep your buyers happy. If game is mainly played online, then don't bother with CD\DVD protection just have an installer with CD and have them create an onlinje account tied to that Key and be done with it, howver most companies don't understand that that works.
It worked for Most BF(i dislike EA in general becaus ethey thend to not care about their buyers but hey they published some good games and have destroyed alot games), it worked for SC, it work for lots of games, and thats the mainstay for most MMO's. yet why doens't everyone else realize such a simple thing(now one of the stupidIST things is say Company of heroes requiering you to be logged in to play SP campaigns WTF!! now prior to the release of OF it wasn't like that but noooo they went gaydumb and did something retarded, I didn't bother playing the campaign anymore, Cause most of teh time i play campaigns when my friends arn't online or my connection is down(maintenance) or i'm out of town and don't have net access.
the cost to make game price wise is overflatted.
1Million to make a game????? WTF!!!!!! yea when yoru spending money and new cars and upgrading computers and allowing vending machiens and toys around the office.
now I'm a a Resseller and a Computer builder for COmpanies that work with CAD, Use High end Back Raided Servers and installing Networks for 2-100 Computers and blah blah blah blah blah, i know the cost shouldn't be near what they are probbaly spending(unless your a tard and are buying name Brand Dell and or god forbid your not buying Alienware{might as well slit your wrist now} your computing systems should be within reasonable means).
Now unless your paying your employes 75-100k(not including what owners and Investors want in return) per year yea your gonna run out of money fast. Not to mention it's Labor. Labor people!!!! WTF are you paying yoru employes???
Now heres my bitch about a game i JUST BOUGHT(Codename: Coldwar Panzer). I demo'd it thought it was okay, woulda like to try and Pirated it to see whats really going on becasue reviews where mixxed and if not bad. No Pirate. So i decided okay i'll buy it. Boy was that a Mistake the game played Better in the SP Demo and MP demo/beta then it actually did in retail. They almost completly took out the Camera system. I'm not stuck with a camera that can barely pull back and adjust, the Graphics where toned down to pixelation. And several of the units where pulled. Now WTF i just spent $39.00 on some POS that i was mislead on with the demo, I guess i should listen to reviews(however thats not always fair to the dev's and i'm not always in agreement with the Reviews). Now i can't take this game back. I can't get a refund. SO i just now gave my money to a worthless game.
How much do you think it cost to buy CDs\DVDs???(and i'm reffering to the Industry type not the consumer ones, you could use both you just need some damn Q&A afterwards) how much do you think it cost to print on them??? now a small ass box(cardboard paper PEOPLE) with almost nothing it it???
THere are more articles about how DRM is hurting games then anything else I've given links b4 and if your that hell bent on not beliveing facts because your a corperate suck-up and enjoy the doggy postion, use your brain and do us all a favor and check that link out http://lmgtfy.com/ and look up what we have been saying. i find that site usefull who are really lazzy looking and always demanding facts from others.