Vig: yes, it IS the past of least resistance. If there is no pirate version, bying it IS the path of least resistance. Right now, there is no cracked version, so.. want to play assassins creed 2? buy it. "If I decide I've had my fill of the internet and I can live without it. I'm screwed." Yeah, you are screweed with most…
You're assuming that's all the game uses the online portion for, is to check if it's online. If it needs input back from the server, the pirate fake server would have to emulate that. That's a lot more difficult than just saying, YOU ARE ONLINE PROGRAM.
Well, if a game have 90% piracy (average number for a PC title) and everyone who bought that game cracked it to remove the DRM, the piracy is still 80%. As for the try-before-you-buy statistics, in one of the piracy articles linked earlier, a game company (don't remember the name) kept track of who on their scoreboards etc…
Steam is at least a service, these drms are restrictions that don't work. Why do I need to be constantly connected to the internet, how is that going to stop pirating? its going to increase it. Being on WIFI kills laptop batteries, plus your playing a game at the same time.
they best way to stop piracy would be dont charge 70€ and ppl will gladly buy it... free games are hardly pirated :P but already happened lol thats the world we live in. nothing can stop human kind . hmm maybe Nibiru ?? xD
The be online play requirement only works until the pirates figure out how to trick the game into thinking it's online, that's all they have to do. Once they do the only ones that suffer are paying customers. Internet goes out for whatever reason I can't play my game. You get the problem? I paid for a game, a single player…
Was pointed out this interview. See 3:32 minute mark where he goes into pirating/DRM thoughts. [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87pevh2Q0hg[/ame] Also, as expected, Ubisofts verification servers have been attacked again with a DNS based method.
Doesn't sound like the path of least resistance to me. http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2010/02/ubisoft-details-drm.ars The power goes out and my laptop still has battery. I'm screwed. If I take it out some place that doesn't have a net connection, or worse I have to pay for the connection. I'm screwed. If I move and I'm…
I think you miss understand. The Pirates I refer to are organized web criminal rings. Whom have botnets of computers they can control for an attack. Not the Pirate hackers whom are pissed and use the DNS attack to make a point. The criminals/mob types basically threaten companies with attacks unless they get paid. Not…
I have quite a large library of games that have out lived the companies and the publishers that created and supported them. I also worked for Atari and had the dubious pleasure of telling people "I'm sorry we no longer support that game" or "yes the servers where shut down a year ago, you'll never play it again". It…