But seriously, enough with this DRM stuff
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Wanted: a ****ing clue
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But seriously, enough with this DRM stuff
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Wanted: a ****ing clue
Lots of good points throughout the article, a lot of them I've already commented on in other threads that brought up similar points.
Honestly, I believe piracy is becoming such an epidemic because of:
1. Moral bankruptcy as you mention. If I WILL get away with it, then why the heck not? I'm not suggesting most people are going to go around murdering each other if they will get away with it (no doubt quite a few would though). "Petty" crimes like theft on the other hand...
2. Massive failure of internet and piracy laws and policing of those laws. At the moment, publishers are trying their damdest to stop piracy (and failing MISERABLY while hurting their legit customers base) when really, beyond basic protection, it should be in the hands of the law and the internetz police to deal with it.
Physical piracy is very minor, basically negligible, especially when faced with massive public online pirating services that exist to mock the current piracy laws (thepiratebay). Being able to tackle, hold those services responsible and force them to moderate and take down illegal content would deal a serious blow to the epidemic of piracy we see now (OT: I wonder what they would do if millions of people started uploading child porn on thepiratebay, I'm pretty sure the site be taken down near instantly). Sure, private services would still be around, but it would be MUCH smaller scale. Its a lot easier to tackle a few private services and 200k pirates instead of thousands of public services and 10mil pirates.
Here's a sad thing I neglected to mention in the article itself - benign, unobtrusive DRM schemes like serial keys can't even be used anymore because of keygens. I've a friend whose completely legitimate purchase of some Steam title wouldn't work because the key was already is use. Yes, DRM is becoming increasingly restrictive, but what are the real alternatives for publishers?
Here's something every pirate should ask themselves honestly - would they really, truly be okay with releasing a product they've personally invested a lot of money into, without any form of copy protection? Would they really, truly be okay with people just taking it without paying? I do think that most habitual pirates have simply never produced anything of value themselves.
The scary thing is this may well keep growing till it becomes all encompassing, not just to the PC, but consoles as well. Perhaps this may be somewhat of a workable solution in countries with great net connections, but man this is going to bite for us.
Was not Blizzard Activision looking to do a similar thing with Starcraft 2 and Diablo 3's singleplayer? I recall some saying it is only the initial verification, but I am not so sure after seeing something like this and how this may very well evolve.
Also I recall some saying on this forum a while back that we should not get angry at these companies or these types of decisions. Because in 1st world countries it will have less of an impact with their great broadband, and it is not their fault we have 'the suck' broadband in SA.
GAH!
The whole DRM thing is just getting out of hand. Companies know that people are going to pirate so they put up even stricter DRM measrues. My question to the pirates, and the fanbois is: If you don't like a game, why don't you just not buy it? If everyone had not bought MW2, instead of pirating it for some bleeding heart reason, it would have been changed. The simple law of supply and demand has a much greater effect on companies and their bank account than protesting over something, then pirating it, which just proves the companies right...and then the whole cycle starts again.
tl;dr: Don't buy the game if you don't like it for whatever reason, that will hurt comapies more.
I think the article is completely misnamed - should be called the "Twerp Exposition Theory". Or something :p
It's a vicious circle really - the pirates aren't going to stop doing what they're doing, and the publishers aren't going to stop coming up with even more devious ways to publish the end user. Although, I suspect that it's going to get to the point where some publisher is going to stick their foot so deep in it, that no-one will buy the game - or so few that the company runs a loss. Only figures in red will make an exec (who's probably never played a game in his life) see sweet reason.
is it time ?...just curious :)
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Originally Posted by Necuno
EA's onto something currently with their "Project $10".
it started with ME 2, all that fancy free dlc we are getting in conjunction with normal cd-key and disc in drive.
the figures might not be very accurate but while still pirated ME 2 hasn't reached the epidemic levels yet.
just an observation.
yes DRM STINKS! but there are alternatives that do work. but most dev houses just go with either the most limpwristed or most draconian option. some try for middle ground. how these work out remains to be seen, but so far EA has been making the right noises and Ubi the wrong ones.
...ok feeling better after the coffee :D
witcher had only a cd check, guess what it sold s***loads.
To some of you this will note make sense, to others, these words may give you something to think about: The issue of pirace is not about moral bankruptcy. The issue is a lack of ethics as a whole. Morals and Ethics are not the same thing