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In short, they are crazy greedy and stupid men who only relented when their customers were leaving them in droves. I will congratulate them if and when they admit the errors of their ways, and not before.
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2012-09-11, 17:41 | Link #6 |
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It hurts to admit their little plan didn't work, huh? I mean, if the policies were actually working and boosting sales like Ubisoft claims in this interview (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012...acy-interview/) they would have no reason to back down no matter what the public says.
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2012-09-13, 07:12 | Link #8 |
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... WTF? Of course it's easier on PC, never said otherwise. Though even then, it's only marginally easier because PC just doesn't have the extra step of having the mod/jailbreak your system, which is still pretty damn easy anyways. Why did you feel the need to bring that up?
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2012-09-15, 12:58 | Link #10 | |
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2012-09-15, 17:23 | Link #11 | |
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Meanwhile, on PC, games that use Steamworks (including ALL Valve games) require you use a Steam emulator to run if you pirate them, which can often be crippling in terms of performance. |
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2012-09-15, 17:23 | Link #12 | |
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2012-09-16, 09:42 | Link #13 |
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I don't approve of piracy but I understand that in some countries it's the only real option for some gamers so I don't judge them. Just looking at the price of somethings there compared to the West is horrifying.
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2012-09-16, 09:52 | Link #14 | |
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Game companies should be punished for not making the best product they can. Always online, issues with activation and spyware are not what paying custermers deserve, and any studio who does it deserve to go broke. Imagine if every new car need a constant wireless internet connection to activate the engine, and if the internet cuts off mid-drive the car shuts down. That's the kind of horrible product they are trying to ask people to pay for. (And then you are told that you can't sell your car to anyone else because it won't work for them; it would cut into their profits to let 2nd hand car markets exist.) Game companies don't deserve money. They need to EARN it.
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2012-09-16, 09:58 | Link #15 |
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Well there's that I suppose. The Ubisoft DRM was just screwed up. I bought the game and when I learned what it was really doing I was furious and had to use a crack so that I could play it offline. After that I swore off Ubisoft until they got rid of it.
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2012-09-16, 10:06 | Link #16 | |
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There might never be another Assassin's Creed, for example.
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2012-09-16, 10:16 | Link #17 |
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There will be another but on PC seems less likely.... They don't seem to understand why a game like Amnesia, with no real DRM, seems to be doing well enough. The creators don't seem all that concerned with the piracy and figured those customers wouldn't have bought the game anyway.
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