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Re: Nintendo, PS3...Piracy Tactics
You can't compare singleplayer games with MMOGs. Players pay subscriptions for WoW and alike because they can play together with thousands of other players...and they understand the need for the online service and the costs that come with it...if you have a singleplayer game, and the only need for being online is harassing… -
Re: Nintendo, PS3...Piracy Tactics
um, not to promote piracy, but isn't an online heartbeat thing kinda.. simpler to crack than local DRM? I mean packet sniffer, a few legit copies, and a PC acting as a proxy server and you could just create an authorization program to run on a local machine (the proxy server), and have it route all packets destined for the… -
Re: Nintendo, PS3...Piracy Tactics
I know it goes against what many people believe, but I think they should just stop wasting money trying to protect games from piracy. Here's some of my reasoning: 1. Pirating has been going on how long now? At least 25 years that I know of. Way back in the days of Leisure Suit Larry, where you had to answer random… -
Re: Nintendo, PS3...Piracy Tactics
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,… -
Re: Nintendo, PS3...Piracy Tactics
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I can't play HL2, any of its episodic content, or TF2, because I lost my old Steam login information and it wouldn't let me recover it by email, only by answering my secret questions (which I also forgot). It eventually, somehow, let me re-register a new account with the same email I used previously. Now I can play L4D2,… -
Re: Nintendo, PS3...Piracy Tactics
No one saw that coming? Tell me that didn't come up in a meeting? Even before I got down to Snefers post I thought, "if you can't crack, attack". This happened to Gas Powered a year ago, you even have a case to study and they still fuck it up. It makes me feel better their crack team is on the job... I'm on your side Ubi… -
Re: Nintendo, PS3...Piracy Tactics
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… -
Re: Nintendo, PS3...Piracy Tactics
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… -
Re: Nintendo, PS3...Piracy Tactics
As someone who worked on Settlers 7, one of the first Ubi games using this new "always on" internet required DRM, I have no problem with it. PC games lose a ton of sales towards Piracy. How much? we can't know, as every pirate wouldn't have turned into a sale, but at least *some* would have. Currently it's rarely… -
Re: Nintendo, PS3...Piracy Tactics
The public in general. And many of the issues with DRM are just waiting for a new answer. There is no way without DRM that even remotely works against piracy, this has been proven time after time, and still people keep coming with the same arguments.
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