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Stardock's DRM Plans

[Oct 24, 2008, 9:25 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Edge Online has word on plans to create a new Digital Rights Management solution from Stardock, a developer/publisher vocally opposed to DRM in the past. While Stardock prez Brad Wardell maintains they do not plan on adding DRM to their own games, other publishers have challenged them to help make DRM more acceptable to consumers: "So the publishers are telling us, 'Put your money where your mouth is. Why don't you guys develop something that you think is suitable that would protect our IP, but would be more acceptable to users?' We're investigating what would make users happy to protect their needs, but also provide some security for the publishers. ... We're actually developing a technology that would do that." They are exploring ways to make it possible to reinstall a game after losing the physical media, and are soliciting ideas from users about what will and won't be acceptable from their points of view.

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Re: Stardock's DRM Plans

Oct 25, 2008, 11:21

^mortis^

still don't understand who this is affecting. I've been playing games on the PC since there were games on the PC, and 've never experienced the kind of issues DRM supposedly creates. sure, i've played buggy games until the patches came out, and some games are just crappy, so there is that. i usually have a semi-decent rig at any given time, and i know another problem is often people still trying to run hardware that was state-of-the-art 4-5 years ago, and insist that the publisher accommodate their chintzy configurations . i always assumed it was primarily pirates, and people running virtual CD software. (i.e; pirates) if you look at the forums whenever a debacle regarding DRM comes up, i would also guess the demographic most affected are 12-year old spoiled brats with trust-funds. ^m^ This comment was edited on Oct 25, 2008, 11:23.

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