Epic convo with Mlkbride

[sub]

It's going to be cracked, but the goal with DRM is to prevent it from being cracked as long as possible. The theory goes that most sales happen in the first week. The longer we can keep people from pirating the game, the more sales we'll get.

I don't particularly think it's a strong argument for DRM, but I do see some validity in it.

 

[Z Power]

It's going to be cracked, but the goal with DRM is to prevent it from being cracked as long as possible. The theory goes that most sales happen in the first week. The longer we can keep people from pirating the game, the more sales we'll get.

I don't particularly think it's a strong argument for DRM, but I do see some validity in it.

So far even that ideology isn't holding up in the real world. Most games appear cracked weeks before release, making that theory fail entirely.

 

[Painkiller]

So far even that ideology isn't holding up in the real world. Most games appear cracked weeks before release, making that theory fail entirely.

Reminds me of mount&blade. I laughed so hard when the cracked version was released a few minutes after the official one.

 

[Avenger]

Yeah, let's laugh at you stealing a program instead of paying for it, so that the people who invested hundreds of hours in it get nothing in return.

 

[Darth Revan]

and he wonders why we all called Dbnoob or DBKID on the dbt forums

 

[MrPlow]

Yet it's proven (by Valve mostly) that even those games with minimal DRM sell great.. hell DRM even puts people off from buying the games since pirates get it for free and DRM free, so no hassle with authentication errors and such

 

[Rocky]

So far even that ideology isn't holding up in the real world. Most games appear cracked weeks before release, making that theory fail entirely.

The PC version of Assassin's Creed 2 wasn't cracked for a month or two after release due to the nature of the DRM that was implemented. So if done properly the theory works quite well.

Not that I'm for or against DRM. I'm (mostly) past my days of pirating software.

 

[sub]

If you call that doing it properly, I'm never buying another PC game ever again. It required a constant internet connection. If your internet connection was spotty, every moment you lost signal the game stopped playing for you.

 

[Rocky]

Yeah, you're right "properly" is not the word, but certainly "effectively". Anyway I have reasonably decent net here and I think it dropped out for me once (maybe twice) throughout the entire game for 100% completion so I didn't really have a problem with it.

 

[Spunky]

The PC version of Assassin's Creed 2 wasn't cracked for a month or two after release due to the nature of the DRM that was implemented. So if done properly the theory works quite well.

Not that I'm for or against DRM. I'm (mostly) past my days of pirating software.

Yeah, and it pissed buying customers the **** off to the point where they Amazon bombed the **** out of the game. The same went for Splinter Cell Conviction and Silent Hunter 5.

 

[Rocky]

Didn't stop the game from still selling reasonably well.

 

[Spunky]

For consoles, sure.

 

[Mkilbride]

Actually, Ubisoft users had trouble with AC2's servers and couldn't play for an entire day.

While me, playing a cracked version, could. Love it.

 

[Rocky]

I know there was downtime the first week or something it came out, but for the month or so afterwards that I was regularly playing it I had no trouble. I finished it around the time the crack was released and haven't really felt the urge to go back to it yet, so not sure about how it's being held up now.

Also, just before I get crucified, I don't really support this form of DRM, I just think it was quite effective at keeping people from cracking it.

 

[Mkilbride]

I was playing when the servers went down, so you're abit wrong about that. They had them go down for a full 24 hours a week after the crack was released...and people lost hours of progress and whatnot.

So, I prefer cracked games, regardless.

 

[Rocky]

I know there was downtime the first week or something it came out, but for the month or so afterwards that I was regularly playing it I had no trouble. I finished it around the time the crack was released and haven't really felt the urge to go back to it yet, so not sure about how it's being held up now.

I was playing when the servers went down, so you're abit wrong about that. They had them go down for a full 24 hours a week after the crack was released...and people lost hours of progress and whatnot.

Yeah.

 

[Deman]

For consoles, sure.

And now I suddenly see why Microsoft decided to enter the console game those many years ago.

 

[The Deco]

I want a cheap apple console, why arent they getting in?

I guess the I**** gives them all the money they need