You know that controversial Ubisoft DRM scheme that insists you’re permanently online if you want to play your games? Namco likes it. Speaking to CVG recently, Namco guy Olivier Comte had stuff to say that’s likely going to prompt another storm of furious gamers vowing to “vote with their wallets” by, in a hilarious display of completely self-defeating behaviour, pirating the game instead.
“I will be very honest. I think it’s a good [approach] for one reason: I have no alternative today,” said Comte. “Is the best one? Certainly not but as of today if I can make something else I’ll do it, but it’s better to do something than not do something.”
But Comte acknowledges this probably isn’t a permanent solution, and that developers and publishers should “put another system in place”.
“We are analysing all of the situations. We have seen what Ubi and EA are doing, we’ve seen what Sony have announced for PS3 and it’s clear that we need to make some choices,” he added. “I’m convinced that whatever system you put in place you can be sure that two hours before putting it out it’ll be cracked in Russia. I think that the combat against piracy is very complicated because it’s very complicated to explain to a 12-year-old that drag and dropping a file on a PC is piracy – he was born with this.”
Namco is readying Test Drive Unlimited 2 and the Witcher 2 for PC release, although it’s not yet confirmed that these titles will include this sort of DRM.
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