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

On the day of its launch, Skylines already had pages and pages of buildings and complicated junctions waiting to be downloaded; now there are 1,000 of them, containing a ridiculous 145,948 mods. That’s quite a lot of stuff to get through. And you should absolutely give Steam Workshop a browse — you never know what you might find.

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.

Here are a few small tidbits of info about Cities: Skylines – day 1 we had 0% piracy. pretty cool. Day 2 16%.

— Shams Jorjani (@ShamsJorjani) March 12, 2015

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

As usual our plan for pirates is to make a great game even better through free updates – making it more convenient to use Steam instead.

— Shams Jorjani (@ShamsJorjani) March 12, 2015

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

— Shams Jorjani (@ShamsJorjani) March 12, 2015

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.

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

— Shams Jorjani (@ShamsJorjani) March 12, 2015

It's all about offering a superior service. How come more and more use Netflix instead of pirating stuff? Ease of use and convenience.

— Shams Jorjani (@ShamsJorjani) March 12, 2015

And this approach absolutely works.

We updated Magicka 14 times in 13 days. Even the pirates stopped posting new pirated versions after a while. Steams autoupdate was easier.

— Shams Jorjani (@ShamsJorjani) March 12, 2015

Also – best 'DRM' ever? Steam workshop.

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— Shams Jorjani (@ShamsJorjani) March 12, 2015

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:

Or….we could build our own ecosystem. Call it….P-play….or…Plorigins…or P-vapor or somesuch…yeah let's do that.

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— Shams Jorjani (@ShamsJorjani) March 12, 2015

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

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Thanks, DSO Gaming.

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