Any clue who is gonna be the European distributor?

As far as i have read, ubisoft had not the best sales with their DRM contaminated games.

So where is their advantage?


The fair minded purchaser of a game which has DRM is the loser.
The pirate is the winner, well he didn't give money for sure but the point is that the pirate doesnt have to struggle with DRM issues.

Publishers should invest their money "they waste on DRM coding" in persecuting the pirates on the p2p plattforms and others.

That doesn't negatively effect the sales like DRM does, because it's not against the purchasers, but lowers the pirate rate.

[chimp306]

Hi

i have been lurking here for a while, looking forward to any news about SOW.

This little DRM chat has persuaded me to thrown in my pennys worth to the debate.

DRM is bad, i have had bad experiences with it and most people that i know who have a knowledge of these things will avoid it like the plague.

So, if they issue a game with DRM, certain people wont buy it.. i normally wait as quite often it appears without DRM later on.

I do however have friends who cant wait, they want the game but they wont buy it with DRM.. so they download the pirate copy which has the DRM ripped out of it.

on a similar note another friend of mine downloads nocd cracks for all his games, because he hates the noise of his dvd drive.. i kid you not.

there is a lot of piracy on the pc, but the pandemic is growing on consoles now too... i for one condone piracy, i like to consider myself old enough to know better, i dont believe that it can ever be stopped, there will always be someone who works around what ever DRM is in place, there will always be someone who will download that work...

Personally i think publishers and developers need to understand that the games market has evolved. there are many new games every month, and many people cant afford to buy every game they want.

Punishing the honest with invasive DRM is not the right way to fix it, it pushes them away and the pirates will work around your DRM regardless.

personally, although flawed as it was i think the right level is the "cd key" system as used in the COD series etc..

just my 2ps worth anyway...