That's because you're doing it wrong. What you really want is the idea of granting exclusive-use rights of an idea or invention to an individual or group over the internet.
That's even more retarded then just phoning them up to get more activations. At least with Spore you can already crack it. If you needed physical hardware it would be a nightmare!
What if in a few years we don't use USB anymore? What if you lose the usb device or it stops working?
I have no idea. I think it is retarded to have these install limitations but some people are so ignorant of the actual problem that they just look retarded themselves when arguing these drm points.
I think this is a great item for price comparison.
Say you're buying an HD TV or something big. You snap a picture of the barcode and it pulls down a list of places which have it cheaper. If you can't see what's so killer about that then maybe you should go back to your xbox and let the adults talk.
PS: I hope you've finished your homework, school day tomorrow.
Except is doesn't work. Games aren't a like a VCR where you have good sales data over a long period of time. If a games publisher notices a drop in sales it's either:
a) Piracy b) PC gaming is dead c) The game sucks d) a,b and never c
You got to realise that these monkeys are retarded. If these executives took a quick browse on the net they'd realise what they are doing wrong. The problem is that they are so out of touch with reality that any loss of sales wouldn't have the outcome you desire.
No, YOU missed the fact. Those millions of illegally acquired pieces of software AREN'T customers. They will NEVER be your customer.
Instead of focusing on consumers that aren't paying you focus on the ones THAT ARE!!
By implementing stronger and stronger DRM you're wasting resources on nothing, but that's not the real reason DRM is put on disks. It's to stop customers from taking back a shitty game.
Lets look at Spore. You buy Spore, install it and link it to your email address. That copy of spore is now permanently linked to you.
After doing this you realise that Spore is a piece of shit with frequent crashes every 5 minutes, but oh look! You CAN'T refund it because you linked it to yourself. So even though EA have released Spore in the horrible state it is they still make a ton of profit with angry customers not being able to refund.
If you buy a toaster and it doesn't work, you take it back. What makes the gaming industry so fucking special?
DRM shows the paying customer that even if you buy the product, pirates get better quality and support. This month I had some time off work so I used it to play games and catch up all on the stuff I have missed. I bought Assassins Creed, Crysis, Spore, Mass Effect and Sins of a solar empire.
All three of the EA games (crysis, spore, mass effect) required me to download the whole game off the internet to get the versions I had working. Assassins Creed worked fine and Sins of a solar Empire I haven't played yet but I am guessing I won't need to download that again to get it working.
The problem with the PC industry is EA. Unfortunately they're almost a monopoly on all games sold.
I'm confused as to what the hell you're talking about because the quote is correct. Spore now gives you 5 activations. If you activate once on your laptop and reinstall it still counts as one activation because it's the same PC. Essentially it lets you install it on 5 unique PCs.
If you're using bit torrent and connecting to a peer on the same ISP it does make a difference and there is flash based hard drive technology coming out that does much greater IO then normal hard drives.
- 2 TVs streaming HD media (upstairs and downstairs?) - 2 Telephone / VOIP sessions - again one for kids one for parents - 2 or 3 computers downloading the whole internet..
Of course it all involves getting a non-existent consumer gigabit router...
If this were any other subject, i'd take it as a joke, but when I read your post the image of a Chinese military offical on the other end pops into my head.
Maybe some of us aren't money grabbing assholes like you? Possibly (like Google) we want to give our ideas so that those less fortunate then us can benefit.
You sound like the kind of guy that asks for a pay check when sending a patch to an open source project. GTFO.
He doesn't need to state any sources it made perfect sense. If you have a mother and a father and they have two kids, statistically a lot of these kids will die of disease, accidents, premature birth.
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The real question would be how long would it take Microsoft to look at gOS and copy them. I mean "innovate", of course.
1) Sell camera on ebay
2) Wait for buyer to report MI6 photos
3) Steal Camera back
4) PROFIT!!!
5) Go to 1
That's because you're doing it wrong. What you really want is the idea of granting exclusive-use rights of an idea or invention to an individual or group over the internet.
Is it anything like the eye of the tiger?
That's even more retarded then just phoning them up to get more activations. At least with Spore you can already crack it. If you needed physical hardware it would be a nightmare!
What if in a few years we don't use USB anymore? What if you lose the usb device or it stops working?
I have no idea. I think it is retarded to have these install limitations but some people are so ignorant of the actual problem that they just look retarded themselves when arguing these drm points.
You realise that the space shuttle is strapped to a fucking huge rocket right? See parent's post, your second sentence is exactly what he said.
I think this is a great item for price comparison.
Say you're buying an HD TV or something big. You snap a picture of the barcode and it pulls down a list of places which have it cheaper. If you can't see what's so killer about that then maybe you should go back to your xbox and let the adults talk.
PS: I hope you've finished your homework, school day tomorrow.
Except is doesn't work. Games aren't a like a VCR where you have good sales data over a long period of time. If a games publisher notices a drop in sales it's either:
a) Piracy
b) PC gaming is dead
c) The game sucks
d) a,b and never c
You got to realise that these monkeys are retarded. If these executives took a quick browse on the net they'd realise what they are doing wrong. The problem is that they are so out of touch with reality that any loss of sales wouldn't have the outcome you desire.
Well then perhaps you should go back to the forums because that is where I get my information from. It's just that mine isn't three weeks old.
So what? Fox news is popular too. Unless your point is that England is full of racist idiots then I am not following...
I'm playing Spore via wine and have been compiling it myself daily for about 2 weeks.
If it was the OS or BIOS I would have been effected by now.
You link to some random asshat (probably yourself) who links to a dead link. Nice try.
Sorry to blow your illusion, but that's just pathetic.
No, YOU missed the fact. Those millions of illegally acquired pieces of software AREN'T customers. They will NEVER be your customer.
Instead of focusing on consumers that aren't paying you focus on the ones THAT ARE!!
By implementing stronger and stronger DRM you're wasting resources on nothing, but that's not the real reason DRM is put on disks. It's to stop customers from taking back a shitty game.
Lets look at Spore. You buy Spore, install it and link it to your email address. That copy of spore is now permanently linked to you.
After doing this you realise that Spore is a piece of shit with frequent crashes every 5 minutes, but oh look! You CAN'T refund it because you linked it to yourself. So even though EA have released Spore in the horrible state it is they still make a ton of profit with angry customers not being able to refund.
If you buy a toaster and it doesn't work, you take it back. What makes the gaming industry so fucking special?
Except it's not a good quote at all.
DRM shows the paying customer that even if you buy the product, pirates get better quality and support. This month I had some time off work so I used it to play games and catch up all on the stuff I have missed. I bought Assassins Creed, Crysis, Spore, Mass Effect and Sins of a solar empire.
All three of the EA games (crysis, spore, mass effect) required me to download the whole game off the internet to get the versions I had working. Assassins Creed worked fine and Sins of a solar Empire I haven't played yet but I am guessing I won't need to download that again to get it working.
The problem with the PC industry is EA. Unfortunately they're almost a monopoly on all games sold.
I'm confused as to what the hell you're talking about because the quote is correct. Spore now gives you 5 activations. If you activate once on your laptop and reinstall it still counts as one activation because it's the same PC. Essentially it lets you install it on 5 unique PCs.
If you're using bit torrent and connecting to a peer on the same ISP it does make a difference and there is flash based hard drive technology coming out that does much greater IO then normal hard drives.
Only racist morons read the Daily Mail with its sensationalist headlines. It's the fox news of Britan's tabloids.
They have their own slashdot too..
I can think of a ton of stuff..
- 2 TVs streaming HD media (upstairs and downstairs?)
- 2 Telephone / VOIP sessions - again one for kids one for parents
- 2 or 3 computers downloading the whole internet..
Of course it all involves getting a non-existent consumer gigabit router...
If the game supports xinput and you have two xbox controllers plugged in then it shouldn't be a problem.
If this were any other subject, i'd take it as a joke, but when I read your post the image of a Chinese military offical on the other end pops into my head.
Maybe some of us aren't money grabbing assholes like you? Possibly (like Google) we want to give our ideas so that those less fortunate then us can benefit.
You sound like the kind of guy that asks for a pay check when sending a patch to an open source project. GTFO.
How could you possibly have a problem with Google doing something like this?!
He doesn't need to state any sources it made perfect sense. If you have a mother and a father and they have two kids, statistically a lot of these kids will die of disease, accidents, premature birth.