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, 20:25

Domgrief

Dear Media, please stop referring to Valve as some sort of hold-out against the evil DRM overlords. They pretty much wrote the book on modern DRM. Love, Domgrief. Until Half-Life, you could rent online games Until Steam, it was considered normal to be able to loan, give or sell games to your friends Early versions of Steam behaved so poorly offline that it was effectively an almost-always-on DRM scheme You can't buy, install and play an off-the-shelf Steam game without connecting to the internet and attaching it to your Steam account They might speak out about some piracy-encouraging behaviours like localising late, but as a publisher they still support piracy-encouraging behaviours like it-costs-twice-as-much-in-Australia

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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