Cities: Skylines is being pirated, but Paradox has a plan

Cities: Skylines has done well enough that Paradox is seeing an uptick in piracy, but it knows how to fight that.

Cities: Skylines is making a lot of waves in the PC gaming community because it offers a kind of city building experience many fans expected from SimCity.

Paradox's Sham Jorjani said not everybody who has been attracted by this attention has been a paying customer.

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But Paradox knows how to fight piracy, because it's done it before.

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Paradox, like CD Projekt, seems to believe draconian DRM only drives more users to piracy. What you need to do is make paying for the game less of a hassle than pirating it.

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And this approach absolutely works.

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Despite the repeated success of generous responses to piracy, other games companies continue to build alternate DRM systems to rivet on top of Steam. Jorjani even made a crack about it:

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Ha ha! Awesome. Cities: Skylines is available now - on Steam, obviously.

Thanks, DSO Gaming.