Paradox's Plan To Deal With Piracy - Cities: Skylines

Paradox recently announced that they broke their previous sales records for whatsoever title they have published or developed in the past, with the release of Cities: Skylines. They managed to sell a whooping 250,000 copies in the first 24 hours of the release. VP of Acquisition at Paradox - Shams Jorjani - had a couple of things to say in regards to piracy and how Paradox usually deals with information technology.

Cities: Skylines Had 16% Piracy On Day 2 After Launch

Shams Jorjani took to twitter to throw some info out there, too as talk a bit nigh how they usually bargain with piracy over at Paradox.

Here are a few modest tidbits of info about Cities: Skylines - twenty-four hour period 1 we had 0% piracy. pretty cool. Day two 16%.

— Shams Jorjani (@ShamsJorjani) March 12, 2022

As usual our plan for pirates is to brand a groovy game even better through free updates - making it more than user-friendly to employ Steam instead.

— Shams Jorjani (@ShamsJorjani) March 12, 2022

That to me sounds like ane of the more logical, reasonable, improve and consumer-friendly plans I accept heard from a publisher in quite some time.

It's all about offering the superior service. That's how we bring down piracy. By making the paid experience a superior ane.

— Shams Jorjani (@ShamsJorjani) March 12, 2022

We updated Magicka 14 times in xiii days. Even the pirates stopped posting new pirated versions after a while. Steams autoupdate was easier.

— Shams Jorjani (@ShamsJorjani) March 12, 2022

Paradox as well seem to have a rather good opinion about DRM.

Here is Paradox Interactive's and Princess Leia's opinion on PC piracy: movie.twitter.com/fDmDgfHHLp

— Shams Jorjani (@ShamsJorjani) March 12, 2022

Also - best "DRM" ever? Steam workshop.

— Shams Jorjani (@ShamsJorjani) March 12, 2022

Or....we could build our ain ecosystem. Call it....P-play....or...Plorigins...or P-vapor or somesuch...yep let's exercise that.

— Shams Jorjani (@ShamsJorjani) March 12, 2022

Lastly, he decided to poke a scrap of fun at some of the other major publishers out at that place with their own "market clients" for their games. And then to sum it up, Paradox'southward program to bargain with piracy is just making the game great, coming out with patches regularly and brand certain that the "paid experience" is ameliorate than the pirated one, and I'1000 totally fine with that.

And what he is saying virtually Steam workshop is quite true, especially for a title such equally Cities: Skylines where you lot tin essentially make any kind of mod, exist information technology how buildings look, or pre-built roads and intersections or simply mods that unlock the entire map from the starting time.

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