I can actually see this getting to a legal level where companies manage to monitor specific users using pirated copies, and then those users get hefty fines in the mail and court summons. THE FUTURE Anyways, this is a pretty interesting social experiment.
Well they're probably the first company to release their game onto a pirate site themself, but games that has jokes for pirates is quite common. And I don't really see how it's the ultimate DRM when the real game has no DRM and only the fake game has a DRM, but that only applies if you download it from their torrent. I…
The only problem with doing this is that every game is going to have a large pirate audience these days, and these people will still review games and post comments about them on forums. If you release a buggy game to them, your metacritic score and word of mouth could suffer.
I know and already stated that earlier, http://www.polycount.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1830041&postcount=15 I'm curious how they're preventing the most damaging piracy with piracy. That is what? That people pirate obscure games instead of buying them that no ones heard of?
The only opinion I have on this story is that when studios see that their game has been hacked and put on torrent sites, they should flood those sites with versions that have some kind of bug. And make the game saves unusable with a fully working pirated version too hehe.
By releasing the gimped version before anyone else, it's very likely to become the 'big' torrent that everyone uses. Serious Sam 3 did this, it had a giant scorpion chase the player everywhere in the pirated version. In Arkham Asylum they disabled one of the jump moves, making parts of the game impossible.
I was thinking. Maybe a way to sedate the pirates would be to release a non gimped version for them that might display ads in game. And/or has a note in further level loads, that if they like the game, why not consider buying it and support the developer? Sorta.a PBS/NPR model. After all if they are playing later levels…
I agree with some of it Overlord. I do think we're underestimating the lowest common denominator when it comes to consumers: while people have been showing a stronger desire to support the creators of what they love, I know there's people who wouldn't know crap or care crap about it just a stones throw away. I also…
But such a torrent wouldn't last for long as the one were discussing is getting replaced by a working cracked version. So such a trick would only work for a very short period of time making it a very ineffective way of preventing piracy. I've seen far better drm. For example crysis 3 took quite a while to actually get a…
I never attacked your character. I asked how many publishers you have worked for, I can understand that people from outside the industry that havent shipped many PC titles and worked for publishers dont believe things etc. But they also have no clue. All the numbers I have seen and heard both from others and things you…