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Rifneno wrote...
Arian Dynas wrote...
Won't disagree that Gamestop and a bunch of stores that use Used games as their primary income are a bunch of leeches, but really, Piracy is alot less of an issue than the entertainment industry complains about, really if you can't compete with free, you can't compete at all. I still love the anti piracy method the developers of Arkham Asylum used, if you pirated the game, the code would disable your glider, meaning you couldn't go anywhere in the game.
1. I wouldn't have said they'd need to be idiots, but considering the rather intensive genetic testing they put prospective races through, I won't deny, probably not likely.
2. We don't really know, there was just a throwaway mention of other, undefined insectioid species in the codex under Collectors in ME2.
3. There's the other possibility, could be they're like ants, when a new queen is needed, some ants are capable of replacing her, so perhaps a Soldier Prothean could go into hibernation in a cocoon and emerge, well a brain bug.
4. Not baiting you man.
Interesting article from CD Projekt and their view on piracy. God, I wish there were more developers like them. They get it. I seriously considered buying a second copy of the game after I read that.
The main problem with the "piracy will ruin civilization!" arguments is that so many people think 1 pirated copy means 1 lost sale. Which assumes that everyone would have legitimately bought the product new otherwise, and that no one will decide the program/movie/whatever is worth the money and buy it legitimately after giving it a test drive. Both of which are such immense logical fallacies that I don't understand how any sentient being can say them with a straight face, let alone believe them.
If you think the Arkham Asylum one is good, get a load of this one: Earthbound. SNES game. Yes, people pirated cartridge based console games before the Internet was big. Where there's a will, there's a way I guess. Anyway... if it detected the cart wasn't legit, when you booted up it would display a copyright warning. Subtle, a lot of people would just figure that was standard and not realize the thing knows. The game was much, much harder than the legit version. And here's the magic part, the coup de grâce. If you did make it to the final boss in the pirated version, the game would freeze up just as the battle begins. When you restart it, you will shudder in horror to find all your saves erased. Coup de grâce indeed.
1. They've been doing it for hundreds of millions of years, if they haven't realized yet that organics form empires then starbrat is the smartest among them.
2. Wha? That came from Bioware? I thought you were just paraphrasing. That doesn't make any damned sense, BW! :
4. Seriously? We wandered back to the subject of a Prothean Reaper by happenstance?
Personally agree about DRM, "when you try to protect everything, you protect nothing" - Sun Tzu
There is no point in making DRM worse for the player than the pirate (I'm looking at you Spore) because basically, it only encourages people to pirate it MORE. Hence why I love GoG among many others. If it's going to be DRM, give me something simple, non invasive and convineint, like Steam, for all it's imperfections.
Heard about the Earthbound one before, forgot that, that was a good one.
1. Hence why I said you were probably right.
2. Yeah, seriously, they never bothered to specify whom, but eh, leaving their options open, I assume.
4. Yeah, pretty much. I don't care one way or another, really, It was just a thought.
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