Slashdot Mirror
DRM vs. Unfinished Games
Rod Cousens is the CEO of Codemasters, and he recently spoke with CVG about how he thinks DRM is the wrong way to fight piracy. Instead, he suggests that the games industry increase its reliance on downloadable content and microtransactions. Quoting:
"The video games industry has to learn to operate in a different way. My answer is for us as publishers to actually sell unfinished games — and to offer the consumer multiple micro-payments to buy elements of the full experience. That would create an offering that is affordable at retail — but over a period of time may also generate more revenue for the publishers to reinvest in our games. If these games are pirated, those who get their hands on them won't be able to complete the experience. There will be technology, coding aspects, that will come to bear that will unlock some aspects. Some people will want them and some won't. When it comes to piracy, I think you have to make the experience the answer to the issue — rather than respond the other way round and risk damaging that experience for the user."
offering non-DRM games for a single cent don't even necessarily work.
Which proves in many ways that the people who claim they don't buy games cause of DRM or that they're too expensive or just BS excuses. World of Goo never used DRM and yet you could see it being shared all over the place on torrent sites. It boils down to people just not wanting to pay people for their work.
No, they shouldn't. I'm not for DRM, but I'm very much against these cheapskates who make up constant bogus excuses for why they download games especially when some of the games they are downloading have never had DRM and have sales where they are practically given away for free. These are the people who claim to be making some sort of moral/ethical point but then go off and download the game and make the lives of those of us who don't believe in taking things we haven't paid for more miserable.