Muscular Beaver wrote on Nov 9, 2011, 14:57:
If anyone who call himself a PC gamer doesnt know Bohemia, then they should go right back to their console and leave the PC for troll posts... Uh... yeah.
I'm sorry but titles like ArmA really aren't mainstream, just like GSC Game World. They may produce great games but it wouldn't even surprise me for a second if many to most avid PC gamers hadn't heard of either company - in both cases the games are better known than the developer.
As for the copy protection, if you're going to implement any protection then it should be like this - something that disadvantages pirates and has little to no impact on legitimate users. However, I'm still of the opinion that DRM should be dropped and instead developers should reward legitimate users with lots of micro-content updates. For instance, TF2 is constantly being patched which makes pirating it more difficult. I used to pirate games because it was convenient, yet thanks to Steam I don't have any pirated games and haven't for the past 5-6yrs - that's because I no longer have to manual source patches, deal with CD-checks, have to find no-CD cracks on dodgy sites, worry about losing my CD-key or deal with installers. Purchasing games was actually less convenient that pirating just 5-10yrs ago.
Fighting piracy with DRM is counter-productive. Instead you must add value and convenience to the legitimate version, while reducing the value and convenience of the pirated version. Pirates are gonna get pretty hacked off if they need to wait a week for extra content to show up on pirate websites and then manually update the game, if such content even appears on such sites, as if they're missing something that legitimate users have access to it devalues the pirated version. I think the best analogy is to liken it to a customer buys a chilled coke with ice, where a pirate gets a warm coke that has gone flat - sure they can re-carbonate the drink and make their own ice but it's an added inconvenience; it also adds a delay.
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."