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The State of Piracy and DRM In PC Gaming

Posted by Soulskill on from the some-of-the-people-some-of-the-time dept.

VideoGamer sat down with Randy Stude, president of the PC Gaming Alliance, to talk about the state of piracy and DRM in today's gaming industry. He suggests that many game studios have themselves to blame for leaks and pre-launch piracy by not integrating their protection measures earlier in the development process. He mentions that some companies, such as Blizzard and Valve, have worked out anti-piracy schemes that generate much less of a backlash than occurred for Spore . Stude also has harsh words for companies who decline to create PC versions of their games, LucasArts in particular, saying, "LucasArts hasn't made a good PC game in a long time. That's my opinion. ... It's ridiculous to say that there's not enough audience for that game ... and that it falls into this enthusiast extreme category when ported over to the PC. That's an uneducated response." Finally, Stude discusses what the PCGA would like to see out of Vista and the next version of Windows.

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  1. Re:DRM? No sir, not around these parts by drinkypoo · · Score: 4, Funny

    You could always try sending a message to the gaming industry by playing Game! - The Witty Online RPG. It's DRM free and you don't need to pirate it.

    Or you could play Slashdot! It has very limited character development and most of the NPCs have an AI worthy of Nethack, but the end game is awesome.

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  2. Re:LOL! Mod Points For A Retard With A Modem by badboy_tw2002 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Give him a break. He wrote that message 8 years ago, it just took a while to transmit. He's probably changed his mind by now, and we'll find out about that in 2016.

  3. Re:Easy - make the Games free and charge for onlin by Per+Wigren · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, the influences of the English language in the rest of the world make people split up words that are supposed to be togetherwritten so I see this as sweet revenge.

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  4. Re:Insert New Business Model Here by JerkBoB · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm fairly old for a gamer at 26

    Uh... What? No, junior, you're not old for a gamer. Computer games have been around since the 60s.

    Popular computer games have been around since the late 70s. REALLY popular games have been around since the 80s. Ever hear of Atari? Colecovision? C=64? Amiga? etc. etc.

    Sheesh. Now get off my lawn.

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  5. Re:Liar! by Ihmhi · · Score: 3, Funny

    Geez, did somebody set off a M-80 under a bridge today or what? All the trolls are grumpy.

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  6. Re:Easy - make the Games free and charge for onlin by Zerth · · Score: 2, Funny

    In irony, I had actually hooked up with a cute girl when I was playing wow, a penny arcade girl, as well, although I had to fly to another state to see her.

    What, is Penny Arcade the new Canada? Or did she have a thick outline, oddly curved fingers, and was drawn awfully sexy for a 14-year old?

  7. Re:Easy - Give away the money and charge for...? by geminidomino · · Score: 2, Funny

    So where's the site the creator can go to to download "free money"?

    A pair of sites actually.

    http://www.house.gov/
    http://www.senate.gov/