The Vicious Cycle of Gaming DRM

[Kougar]

DRM really doesn't stop anything, much like the existence of the SEC doesn't really stop fraud, and speed limits don't prevent speeding or encourage safe driving. It just makes things a bit more tough on the rest of us, and I would argue necessarily.

QFT

 

[Rob Williams]

Recently bought Splinter Cell : Conviction - a pretty fun game - and I couldn't redeem any of the codes on launch day and several times it simply couldn't establish a connection to the authentication server so I just could not play (the servers were down as verified by the SplinterCell Forums.

You've got to be kidding me...

I downloaded this game on Steam last week, in hopes that it might be cool enough to introduce into our GPU suite. I have a strict rule that the Internet must be disabled during benchmarking, so this kind of screws things up there. This is getting seriously depressing, because the way things are going, if I want to benchmark any game, I'm almost going to be <em>forced</em> to crack it. Ugh, thanks a lot, Ubisoft.

 

[Kougar]

To touch on my original post about how piracy DOES actually hurt game developers (such as Link which is worth repeating again), I just saw this article today. All that bandwidth doesn't come free...

Humble Bundle gives pirates what they want, gets ripped off

 

[Rob Williams]

To touch on my original post about how piracy DOES actually hurt game developers (such as Link which is worth repeating again), I just saw this article today. All that bandwidth doesn't come free...

Humble Bundle gives pirates what they want, gets ripped off

It's almost uncanny that we posted a news story on this literally two minutes before you made this post ;-)

http://techgage.com/news/the_not_so_humble_bundle_of_pirates/