Friday 2010-04-30 Dev. update and Discussion Thread

[philip.ed]

Oleg, it seems there is a petition against DRM appearing in future games, and some people are not happy if SoW does follow this (due to Ubisoft)
Is Ubisoft still the publisher or SoW? As if they inforce their DRM policy, then many people will choose to not buy SoW...

...see here http://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,5277.0.html

EDIT_see here for a better example http://www.petitiononline.com/ew15dl94/ over 13000 votes against the DRM policy.

[Abbeville-Boy]

Originally Posted by philip.ed

Oleg, it seems there is a petition against DRM appearing in future games, and some people are not happy if SoW does follow this (due to Ubisoft)
Is Ubisoft still the publisher or SoW? As if they inforce their DRM policy, then many people will choose to not buy SoW...

...see here http://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,5277.0.html

a modding site against drm

[philip.ed]

Ssh!

yes, I understand how funny it may seem, but it surely demonstrates the fact further....none-the-less, it shows how DRM could work adversely for SoW

[KG26_Alpha]

Originally Posted by philip.ed

Ssh!

yes, I understand how funny it may seem, but it surely demonstrates the fact further....none-the-less, it shows how DRM could work adversely for SoW

More to the point how effective it could work for publishers using it.

It looks like a bunch of headless chickens running around squawking "DRM DRM DRM"

It just shows how ill informed and ignorant some of the anti DRM voters are there.

[philip.ed]

Originally Posted by KG26_Alpha

More to the point how effective it could work for publishers using it.

It looks like a bunch of headless chickens running around squawking "DRM DRM DRM"

It just shows how ill informed and ignorant some of the anti DRM voters are there.

I'm not following. maintaing a constant internet connection to play a game limits the games audience to those with a constant internet connection, which IMO is ridiculous.

[TheGrunch]

I'd be quite content to buy a game that requires a one-time activation at install, and obviously authentication every time a player goes online to play multiplayer games would be entirely reasonable as well, as long as it was not a requirement to do so when joining a LAN game.

[philip.ed]

Originally Posted by TheGrunch

I'd be quite content to buy a game that requires a one-time activation at install, and obviously authentication every time a player goes online to play multiplayer games would be entirely reasonable as well, as long as it was not a requirement to do so when joining a LAN game.

It seems you have to be online even when playing offline (a la RoF) in the DRM policy which sucks if it's true.

[Flying_Nutcase]

Hi Oleg,

You really have friends in high places! Congrats on the meet with your president and thanks for the great little update.


Flying Nutcase