Op Ed

[Oct 26, 2011, 10:21 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Wired.com- If You Want To Fight Piracy, Make Better Games. Thanks nin.
Ubisoft’s plan isn’t working. Even after taking these drastic steps, the company says that 90 percent of the people who play its games are playing them illegally, according to Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter.

But how many people only used piracy as a way to bypass the DRM? How many of those pirates might have purchased PC copies of games like Assassin’s Creed II if they could be played without an internet connection?

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Re: Op Ed

Oct 26, 2011, 16:58

Prez

Steam encourages customers to buy games, share them with friends and compete online for achievements. For those players, it becomes more fun to buy games than pirate them.

I've loved Steam for a while now, but not until recently did I realize the fun in chasing a Steam friend's high score. I'd normally have no reason to go back and repeat a level I maxed in most games, but this morning, while playing Orcs Must Die, I looked up at the corner of the screen after finishing a level with 5 skulls (who da man!) and noticed those bastards Dev and Verno had even higher scores than I did for that level. I simply can NOT let that stand!




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	1.	Oct 26, 10:50	Re: Op Ed	ldonyo
	2.	Oct 26, 10:58	Re: Op Ed	InBlack
	3.	Oct 26, 11:06	Re: Op Ed	Verno
	4.	Oct 26, 11:14	Re: Op Ed	Dmitri_M
	5.	Oct 26, 12:17	Re: Op Ed	Darks
	13.	Oct 26, 16:08	Re: Op Ed	Creston
	15.	Oct 26, 16:51	Re: Op Ed	space captain
>>	16.	Oct 26, 16:58	Re: Op Ed	Prez
	18.	Oct 26, 18:42	Re: Op Ed	Sepharo
	6.	Oct 26, 12:26	Re: Op Ed	Verno
	7.	Oct 26, 13:35	Re: Op Ed	Ruffiana
	8.	Oct 26, 14:01	Re: Op Ed	Spektr
	9.	Oct 26, 15:08	Re: Op Ed	Draugr
	19.	Oct 26, 18:54	Re: Op Ed	The Half Elf
	20.	Oct 26, 19:06	Re: Op Ed	Sepharo
	21.	Oct 26, 19:10	Re: Op Ed	DedEye
	25.	Oct 26, 21:22	Re: Op Ed	WyldKat
	30.	Oct 27, 19:39	Re: Op Ed	DedEye
	14.	Oct 26, 16:09	Re: Op Ed	Creston
	22.	Oct 26, 20:04	Re: Op Ed	jdreyer
	10.	Oct 26, 15:22	Re: Op Ed	Cutter
	11.	Oct 26, 15:53	Re: Op Ed	Prez
	12.	Oct 26, 16:06	Re: Op Ed	Creston
	17.	Oct 26, 18:05	Re: Op Ed	Uncle Bone
	23.	Oct 26, 20:06	Re: Op Ed	Fletch
	24.	Oct 26, 20:25	Re: Op Ed	Domgrief
	26.	Oct 26, 21:57	Re: Op Ed	killer_roach
	27.	Oct 26, 22:21	Re: Op Ed	Prez
	28.	Oct 27, 07:18	Re: Op Ed	everyone
	29.	Oct 27, 11:26	Re: Op Ed	Verno