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How Piracy Affected the Launch of Demigod
Demigod is an RTS/RPG hybrid developed by Gas Powered Games and published by Stardock, a company notable for their progressive and lenient stance on DRM. The game was set to be released on April 14th, and shipped without any form of copy protection. Unfortunately, retailer Gamestop broke the street date and released it earlier in the week. A day after pointing this out, Gas Powered Games posted some numbers about the players hitting their servers. Roughly 18,000 connections were made from legitimately purchased copies; over 100,000 were made from pirated copies. Meanwhile, the servers, which were not yet ready for that level of traffic, buckled under the strain, resulting in poor experiences for people trying to participate in multiplayer. While some reviews were positive, others criticized the game for the connectivity issues. After another day, they were able to stabilize the servers to the point they'd planned on for the original launch.
You should work for Blizzard.
Put identity in the browser.
My post above was 100% on topic. Moderators, don't be assholes.
"The agriculture ministry is not in charge of Gundam" - Japanese ministry official.
"Technology has made reproducing digital information cost almost nothing, yet we get to pay the same price for music as when they cost a lot more to reproduce."
You lose on two counts.
1) it's "getting raped", not "getting rapped".
2) Technology may have made reproducing digital information cost nothing, but the cost of producing it is still the same (if not more). This is what you are purchasing.
Reproduction was never a really high cost (CDS, cassettes, records, all pretty cheap compared to the production cost).
So, stop using it as an excuse to download stuff for free, it just makes you look foolish.
I don't, and you're wrong. If that came for free, for life, with what was in the box, then yes. But it doesn't. It's sold seperately, and can be implemented seperately, just like any other client/server architecture. They may package them together and force you to use them together, but that is simply false scarcity. Additionally, it is possible to play demigod in single-player mode.
In your own words, you're not as bright as you think you are. But since we both think that of each other, it's probably best to just agree to disagree and drop it. I really don't find the topic of yet another MMO's failure that interesting anyway.