The Awful Anti-Pirate System That Will Probably Work

CoreDuo

Seems slashdot jumped the gun on that one.

http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/03/0 ... In-One-Day

This slashdot comment says it best:

Engineering hours building unbreakable DRM: $1.6M
Marketing devoted to managing customer hostility to new DRM: $800K
Lost sales due to customers boycotting your product: $2M
Having some wiseass kid from Sweden break your DRM on the first day: Priceless

UPONCPU

God why do they even bother? You will never stop software piracy, just get over it already and try to make money while you can.

Swifto

UP-ON-CPU wrote:

God why do they even bother? You will never stop software piracy, just get over it already and try to make money while you can.

I certainly would have to agree.

BlueSun

Exactly, I mean they're probably loosing more to boycotts than they are to piracy.

noone

All they are doing is pissing off legimate users of the program, like some of us who all use laptops and game when we do not have a connection all the time.

UPONCPU

BlueSun wrote:

Exactly, I mean they're probably loosing more to boycotts than they are to piracy.

Not to mention the money spent developing the software, running the server, and such.

Q

I have to say, your title had me a little worried, but my long standing DRM-cynicism prevented too much of a shock.

-Q

CoreDuo

Q wrote:

I have to say, your title had me a little worried, but my long standing DRM-cynicism prevented too much of a shock.

-Q

Title had its intended effect then :P

UPONCPU

Also I wonder what those assholes at DefectiveByDesign had to say about this...

Q

Scandanavia seems to usually be the ones responsible.

-Q

CoreDuo

Amusing and inevitable update on this

http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/03/0 ... lashdot%29

08:12 <Erik> All internet connection arguments aside, let's not lose sight of two simple facts:
08:12 <Erik> - The only people who can play the game right now are pirates.
08:12 <Erik> - The only people who are blocked from playing the game right now are those who legally purchaced the game.

UPONCPU

Oh wow that's pretty great. Silly Ubisoft, games are for people.

Swifto

A shame; I usually really like Ubisoft.

UPONCPU

What, in particular, do you like from them? You never seemed the type to me.

Actually you never seemed the type to like anything made after 2000.

Swifto

Didn't I gush to you about Prince of Persia before?

huh.

Well, Sands of Time, at least, has gotten a LOT of enjoyment from me. Haven't played the others.

BlueSun

CoreDuo wrote:

Amusing and inevitable update on this

http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/03/0 ... lashdot%29

08:12 <Erik> All internet connection arguments aside, let's not lose sight of two simple facts:
08:12 <Erik> - The only people who can play the game right now are pirates.
08:12 <Erik> - The only people who are blocked from playing the game right now are those who legally purchaced the game.

HA! Awesome. I love when shit like this backfires on them.

CoreDuo

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2010 ... ed-out.ars (though the pirates being locked out is total bullshit)

So should I cash in and add every Ubisoft title pre-2000 to my site? :P

http://www.mobygames.com/browse/games/d ... lished-by/
http://www.mobygames.com/browse/games/d ... eloped-by/
http://www.mobygames.com/browse/games/w ... lished-by/
http://www.mobygames.com/browse/games/w ... eloped-by/

FedeArg

CoreDuo wrote:

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2010/03/ubisoft-on-drm-snafu-servers-attacked-pirates-locked-out.ars (though the pirates being locked out is total bullshit)

So should I cash in and add every Ubisoft title pre-2000 to my site? :P

http://www.mobygames.com/browse/games/d ... lished-by/
http://www.mobygames.com/browse/games/d ... eloped-by/
http://www.mobygames.com/browse/games/w ... lished-by/
http://www.mobygames.com/browse/games/w ... eloped-by/

LOL, totally pwned! xD

Bah stupid attempts to fight piracy with fucking retard DRM system.... They just should stop acting like assholes, the only thing that they're doing here is affect legit users

UPONCPU

Yes, Fede, we've been over this, try to keep up.

FedeArg

UP-ON-CPU wrote:

Yes, Fede, we've been over this, try to keep up.

I know, but I totally missed the opportunity to comment :S

Happy Dude

UP-ON-CPU wrote:

Yes, Fede, we've been over this, try to keep up.

It was 2 days :roll:

Swifto

Happy Dude wrote:

UP-ON-CPU wrote:

Yes, Fede, we've been over this, try to keep up.

It was 2 days :roll:

That's like 8 years in internet time.

bigslowfat

Getting very used to that being a Chinese player.
As far as I know,some Taiwan game studios and companies have been using such method since early 2008 and as a fan to their games i'v been staying up with such online "single-machine" games for a long while.There also exists another bomb that one day their servers might be banned by China's Great Firewall......it sucks and happened once.
From earlist pwd graph/table,floppy/cd check,cd checkers using kernel-mode drivers (like starforce),online activation,until today's online single machine,wtf......