Friday 2010-10-29 Dev. update and Discussion

[swiss]

Originally Posted by speculum jockey

Steam's pretty cool, and it already has the built in DRM and Offline Mode as well. Although I'm one of those guys who like to have an actual physical copy.

Concerning the DRM issue.

1. DRM will be hacked - always. If they won't, the game is a flop.
2. We realize you can protect a game only for a certain amount of time.
3. therefore you need a drm which keeps the hackers busy, but the same is cheap(will be worthless in no time anyway) and doesn't piss off the customers too much.


I like to compare it to bicycle lock.
There are all kind of locks, but with a cutting disc you can open them all.
So what you need is the cheapest lock you need a cutting disc for.

i.e. there are (solid steel, u-)locks for $200 and some for $40.
The only difference is, it takes ten seconds more to cut the $200 lock compared to it's cheap $40 pendant.

I still think a one time activation(plus a check during each update/patch) is the best solution.
The same product number can't be active twice, right?

[robtek]

I'll second swiss idea, there should be a protection, but one that doesn`t leave the paying customer in a worse position than the pirate!!!
SH5's protection was cracked pretty fast and produced the situation named above.
Something like Windows has, with a check for every update and a secondary check for stolen keys on the package would sound good to me.