I agree totally. A well constructed argument for this point of view can be found on a blog by one of the developers at Stargate, wish I could find it right now. The point he makes is that if the person in question would pirate your game chances are they won't buy your game if they can't pirate it.
I think what Ubisoft is saying with their DRM policy is that they think their game is SOOOO good that having a nearly ruined user experience won't make massive amounts of their more casual customer base leave and better yet all those hardcore fans that pirate will come and buy it now right? NO, they pirates will just wait or not play, they are not your customers anyway you should not care about them.
As for the users who will flee your products, they were your customers THEY should matter. I am in that category myself, the ONLY times I play single player games, like Assassin's Creed 2, is when I don't have an internet connection. One of my favorite Ubisoft products, one I bought mind you, is Chessmaster 9000, I got 10th edition too, It only has a CD check and 9000 did its CD check every month.
Also I hate having a bunch of discs so I make ISOs out of all my games so I can switch games quickly and not have to worry about breaking discs. For some games the torrented ISO with crack has a better user access to the product than the store version. I can use it how I want, like I should be able to do with something I bought and OWN. This goes along with the better user experience from pirated games so I can see why people pirate.
TL:DR Pirates get better user experience, why need an internet connection for 1 player games, glad your scaring your real customers away since the pirates will never buy your product anyway, just ignore them.
I close with this since it makes a strong point. http://xkcd.com/488/
Sorry for wall of text.
I was going to post about Age of Empires but you beet me to it, *clap clap*. I agree that learning from games would be very useful in educational systems, I have a paper about just that for an english class some where that i can't find. I find that games i remember the most about are those that are the most fun. Like to this day i can run a game i have not played in years and still know the whole map, where everything is and always know where i'm going I don't know where anything is in the city I live in but I can find the powerups in a 10year old game no problem. So as long as the game is fun people will remember things from it, hence game quotes. so for me its more important to make a game fun to play. your educational element should not be blatant. Anyone else remember those horribly lame games for typing classes, i learned to type from selling stuff in an mmo. It should be the background element that is absorbed unnoticed while playing, like with Age of Empires. anyway good luck i hope someone somewhere finally starts making educational games that are actually good games, it would be wonderful if alot of games had an educational element and the future generations grow up playing them and are smarter because of it.
this is the beginning of big brother. soon if this is allowed to happen everything will be approved (xkcd.com/129) content there will be no limit to censorship it will be worse than the Nazis. this must never be allowed to exist, i call upon the entire internet to find a way to counter this. we hacked the wii we can break this now nerds CHARGE.
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I agree totally. A well constructed argument for this point of view can be found on a blog by one of the developers at Stargate, wish I could find it right now. The point he makes is that if the person in question would pirate your game chances are they won't buy your game if they can't pirate it. I think what Ubisoft is saying with their DRM policy is that they think their game is SOOOO good that having a nearly ruined user experience won't make massive amounts of their more casual customer base leave and better yet all those hardcore fans that pirate will come and buy it now right? NO, they pirates will just wait or not play, they are not your customers anyway you should not care about them. As for the users who will flee your products, they were your customers THEY should matter. I am in that category myself, the ONLY times I play single player games, like Assassin's Creed 2, is when I don't have an internet connection. One of my favorite Ubisoft products, one I bought mind you, is Chessmaster 9000, I got 10th edition too, It only has a CD check and 9000 did its CD check every month. Also I hate having a bunch of discs so I make ISOs out of all my games so I can switch games quickly and not have to worry about breaking discs. For some games the torrented ISO with crack has a better user access to the product than the store version. I can use it how I want, like I should be able to do with something I bought and OWN. This goes along with the better user experience from pirated games so I can see why people pirate. TL:DR Pirates get better user experience, why need an internet connection for 1 player games, glad your scaring your real customers away since the pirates will never buy your product anyway, just ignore them. I close with this since it makes a strong point. http://xkcd.com/488/ Sorry for wall of text.
I was going to post about Age of Empires but you beet me to it, *clap clap*. I agree that learning from games would be very useful in educational systems, I have a paper about just that for an english class some where that i can't find. I find that games i remember the most about are those that are the most fun. Like to this day i can run a game i have not played in years and still know the whole map, where everything is and always know where i'm going I don't know where anything is in the city I live in but I can find the powerups in a 10year old game no problem. So as long as the game is fun people will remember things from it, hence game quotes. so for me its more important to make a game fun to play. your educational element should not be blatant. Anyone else remember those horribly lame games for typing classes, i learned to type from selling stuff in an mmo. It should be the background element that is absorbed unnoticed while playing, like with Age of Empires. anyway good luck i hope someone somewhere finally starts making educational games that are actually good games, it would be wonderful if alot of games had an educational element and the future generations grow up playing them and are smarter because of it.
this is the beginning of big brother. soon if this is allowed to happen everything will be approved (xkcd.com/129) content there will be no limit to censorship it will be worse than the Nazis. this must never be allowed to exist, i call upon the entire internet to find a way to counter this. we hacked the wii we can break this now nerds CHARGE.