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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. Second post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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    1. Re:Second post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  4. Re:That's an easy question by interstellar_donkey · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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    Man that was a long sentence.

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    The Internet is generally stupid