pior: because once its cracked, its cracked forever. Pirates wont notice if you have a new paradigm next week, cause they have already patched away the online authentication. Basically, that is what many games have now as DRM. Being online constantly is very different.
IF they saw it coming then they knew it would effect them this way and they've failed to address the issue. Ignore it and hope it goes ok, isn't proper planning. If they can't combat the hardware problem then they needed to be prepared for the PR nightmare which is why they attacked... So far they're caught with their…
I'm not a pro-piracy at all but sometimes I feel as if everyone just want my money even after I've payed for something. And I agree with the original poster, the industry solution to piracy is pretty messed up. ironic image #32 (I'm not a pirate so no hatin' : ) I think the image has a point though.)
Seeing as there arn't any games out with the new DRM (I think), thats to be expected. I haven't seen any on pirate bay or newz hosting anyway. But this stuff will be cracked, those guys live for the challenge. What was that god awful DRM they used on Riddick? It took them a few days, but they got around that, too, and that…
Modern Warfare 2, apparently, was the most pirated game of 2009. It also brought in over a billion dollars in sales. I don´t think profit depends on low piracy rates. Then again, considering the outcry against MW2´s lack of dedicated servers, profit doesn´t seem to depend on building a relationship with your customers…
Piflik, I have read that article, and you can't take that example to a be-all-end-all argument, that was a game that WAS cracked. Please give me conversion statistics for a game that has not been cracked for atleast the first few months on the market. Oh, wait.. there are no such figures? Exactly. We are dealing with…
Its mostly restrictive for pirates though :P Yes, they are up on torrents, both AC2 and SH5. AC2 has been up on piratebay for a couple of days now, still not cracked at all. So its out en masse alright... Its already been out on torrents for five days, so.. I don't think its gonna be cracked in a week. A month, maybe yes.…
Actually, it hasn't :P They have just put up a ripped DVD without crack... in russian... But for anyone who want's to play the installer in russian, go bananas! ^^ "I strongly suspect that these new DRMs aren't really to fight Piracy, but to kill the market for used games..." Used games market on PC? Not really, there is…
Nah, this DRM crap is forcing people to pirate/patch, I still have one install of Mass Effect left on my BOUGHT copy, but i can't be fucked installing it on PC because it causes so many headaches. Vig is right, whats the point of buying a game when you're pandering to non-offline modes? Steam is the max i can handle,…
Just going to throw my 2 cents in. 1. I have no problem with drm - in a way it is required, yet at the same time it isn't. Yes drm gets cracked all the time, sometimes the drm is just fooled into believing something that is false. Oblivion had zero drm - it only required the disk to be in to start the game - and it was…