PC Gaming Alliance's New President Talks DRM, System Requirements

arcticstoat writes "It's been nearly three years since the PC Gaming Alliance announced its formation at GDC 2008, promising to 'advance the PC as a worldwide gaming platform.' Since then, Activision-Blizzard has publicly left the alliance, Sony DADC – developer of the controversial SecuROM DRM software – has signed up and some people are wondering if the PCGA is really acting in the best interests of PC gamers. However, in December 2010 the alliance appointed a new president — Intel's Matt Ployhar — who's promising to make some changes. In this in-depth interview, Ployhar reveals that he wants to tempt Activision Blizzard back to the alliance, saying that 'Activision's Kotick and Blizzard's Morhaime may be more aligned with our future objectives than they may realize.' He also discusses Sony DADC's role in the alliance, and the group's stance on DRM, explaining that its research can 'really help to influence Sony DADC's and other members' awareness of key trends taking place in the PC gaming ecosystem. Given the trend of retail's diminishing presence, free-to-play, games moving towards authentication, game streaming and so on, it's really hard to divine where DRM solutions fit into this equation in the future.'"

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Pc gaming = Too hard

[commodore64_love]

PC games are too hard to install.

Correction: Easy to install, but making them work with my graphics card or audio card..... that's the real challenge. It's nowhere near as easy as my Atari or Commodore or Amiga where I just slide the disk in the machine, and it works, because the hardware is standardized so the programmer targeted the video/audio processors directly.

Example: I bought Wing Commander 1 for the PC from amazon. It won't work on Seven. Won't work on XP. Won't work on 98. I even downloaded DOS 6 and it still won't work (sound but no picture). ----- So after a day of frustration, I went over to lemonamiga.com on Day #2 and quickly located the version for that machine. The graphics are only 704x240 instead of 480p VGA, but it least it works.