I said their quest (did I? *checks* yes I did), or rather the hope of finding a way to guarantee profit is worth losing a small amount of sales. The only way you are going to get a real scumbag pirate to buy anything, ever is to force him. A DRM scheme that reduces piracy does not work, you're right. One that makes piracy impossible would. You might say IT WILL ALWAYS BE CRACKED, but I really can't blame them for trying.
No, DRM does not improve sales. But your not purchasing the game because of intrusive DRM is completely beside the point. The point is numerous quality developers are having their necks wrung by piracy, and their quest for a way to guarantee profit - to them - is worth the relatively small number of customers that refuse to purchase their products due to DRM.
I get that the DRM-is-stoopid mentality is popular here on slashdot, and as such is a great way to ramp up the karma, but the way you always derail every piracy related topic into how YOU, the tiny minority are affected is getting really old.
What a load of shit. It's been proven time and again that "we" will not pay for anything we don't have to..
You might stand on principle against DRM, or only use piracy as a means of evaluating a product before playing blind date with fifty bucks, but you're in a very, very small minority. The majority is scum who will download the pay what you want Humble Indie Bundle off a fucking torrent. The sooner everyone can admit that piracy is a serious problem, and DRM schemes are often desperate developers pushed into a corner, the sooner we can work toward finding a good middle ground.
"On the surface investing so much into a PC title seems like an odd move"
I assume they mean $100 million for the entire series (Wings of Liberty, Legacy of the Void, Heart of the Swarm), making it ~33 per game? After all, they're selling them at full price, and mentioned several times that each installment could stand on it's own. Seeing as they're doing this to brag, it seems odd they wouldn't mention that it was just Wings of Liberty if that was the case.
"no they don't, they have no idea what is going on, and there is no legal avenue to find out."
What happened to Kennedy? and what "legal avenue" would you use to find out? The western world might be the lesser of two evils, but it's still that. You are implying it isn't as much as I was implying that China was somehow more admirable.
Are you sure about this strategy? World of Warcraft is running out of ideas as fast as they are subscribers. Modern Warfare 2's PC version is already played by fewer people than Counter-Strike, an eleven year old fan mod. Starcraft 2 is not subscription based and don't get me started on Guitar Hero 40.
To beat money out of a PC franchise, it needs to be good. Ask EPIC about how well games that compete with Halo compete with Valve.
"Since when following Geneva conventions is considered anything but normal?"
Hitler said "The victor will never be asked if he told the truth." Likewise, the US will never be asked whether they followed the Geneva convention, and the disciplining of the source of this video is likely the only thing that's going to come out of this mess.
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
At 8 minutes 30 seconds you can hear the guy in the Apache, crosshair hovering over a gravely wounded individual that is clearly struggling to even get anywhere saying and I quote "Come on buddy all you gotta do is pick up a weapon".
I see civilians being shot, I hear officials on comms laughing about the truck driving in there to attempt to save those shot running over a corpse and I see us being told that Iraqi insurgents were responsible. How the fuck is this open to interpretation?
"The company said piracy affected [...] the price of video games"
Amusingly enough, "the company" didn't mention whether or not this effect was positive or negative, or for whom.
Because they go out of their way to make everyone believe piracy is a heinous, unforgivable crime on par with rape and murder. The avarage consumer has come to believe they have no choice but to either not play the game or pay to be taken advantage of.
I fear what the gaming industry would become without piracy as a constant competitor.
Game time can be purchased with in-game currency.
One month of gametime goes for about 250mil ISK. 4 of the ships lost go for over 100bil. The "smaller" ships for anywhere from 1 to 2bil. >600 ships lost.
Do the math.
One that helps consumers protect themselves from corporations whoms products have been steadily declining in quality for the last 10 years.
Mister CEO doesn't want a guard rail, he wants a traffic warden.
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I said their quest (did I? *checks* yes I did), or rather the hope of finding a way to guarantee profit is worth losing a small amount of sales. The only way you are going to get a real scumbag pirate to buy anything, ever is to force him. A DRM scheme that reduces piracy does not work, you're right. One that makes piracy impossible would. You might say IT WILL ALWAYS BE CRACKED, but I really can't blame them for trying.
No, DRM does not improve sales. But your not purchasing the game because of intrusive DRM is completely beside the point. The point is numerous quality developers are having their necks wrung by piracy, and their quest for a way to guarantee profit - to them - is worth the relatively small number of customers that refuse to purchase their products due to DRM.
I get that the DRM-is-stoopid mentality is popular here on slashdot, and as such is a great way to ramp up the karma, but the way you always derail every piracy related topic into how YOU, the tiny minority are affected is getting really old.
What a load of shit. It's been proven time and again that "we" will not pay for anything we don't have to..
You might stand on principle against DRM, or only use piracy as a means of evaluating a product before playing blind date with fifty bucks, but you're in a very, very small minority. The majority is scum who will download the pay what you want Humble Indie Bundle off a fucking torrent. The sooner everyone can admit that piracy is a serious problem, and DRM schemes are often desperate developers pushed into a corner, the sooner we can work toward finding a good middle ground.
Who cares what a physician thinks? go back to popping hemorrhoids buddy.
"On the surface investing so much into a PC title seems like an odd move"
I assume they mean $100 million for the entire series (Wings of Liberty, Legacy of the Void, Heart of the Swarm), making it ~33 per game? After all, they're selling them at full price, and mentioned several times that each installment could stand on it's own. Seeing as they're doing this to brag, it seems odd they wouldn't mention that it was just Wings of Liberty if that was the case.
"no they don't, they have no idea what is going on, and there is no legal avenue to find out."
What happened to Kennedy? and what "legal avenue" would you use to find out? The western world might be the lesser of two evils, but it's still that. You are implying it isn't as much as I was implying that China was somehow more admirable.
I'm sure what you meant to say was "to hell with any country that is open about censorship, and doesn't hide behind the media and state secrets".
Are you sure about this strategy? World of Warcraft is running out of ideas as fast as they are subscribers. Modern Warfare 2's PC version is already played by fewer people than Counter-Strike, an eleven year old fan mod. Starcraft 2 is not subscription based and don't get me started on Guitar Hero 40.
To beat money out of a PC franchise, it needs to be good. Ask EPIC about how well games that compete with Halo compete with Valve.
The idea of the game was to imitate what happened on screen I believe. Not much better, but yeah.
Hitler said "The victor will never be asked if he told the truth." Likewise, the US will never be asked whether they followed the Geneva convention, and the disciplining of the source of this video is likely the only thing that's going to come out of this mess.
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
If the EU doesn't uphold this, it's members will.
Blowing up innocent people, that'll teach those damn terrorists!
Self-serving schemers? What, Kotick was afraid of some competition?
Larry mentions his own, new, quote "more responsible" encyclopedia project in the first paragraph. How convenient.
It will have the same effect cars did on walking a dog
At 8 minutes 30 seconds you can hear the guy in the Apache, crosshair hovering over a gravely wounded individual that is clearly struggling to even get anywhere saying and I quote "Come on buddy all you gotta do is pick up a weapon".
I see civilians being shot, I hear officials on comms laughing about the truck driving in there to attempt to save those shot running over a corpse and I see us being told that Iraqi insurgents were responsible. How the fuck is this open to interpretation?
"The company said piracy affected [...] the price of video games" Amusingly enough, "the company" didn't mention whether or not this effect was positive or negative, or for whom.
Because they go out of their way to make everyone believe piracy is a heinous, unforgivable crime on par with rape and murder. The avarage consumer has come to believe they have no choice but to either not play the game or pay to be taken advantage of. I fear what the gaming industry would become without piracy as a constant competitor.
and some Jack Thompson hate.
uuuhm. I mean whether or not I returned it to my local retailer an hour after installing.
Game time can be purchased with in-game currency. One month of gametime goes for about 250mil ISK. 4 of the ships lost go for over 100bil. The "smaller" ships for anywhere from 1 to 2bil. >600 ships lost. Do the math.
I see an ugly guy being photoshopped into a good looking one. What does race have to do with it?
"Allah"
One that helps consumers protect themselves from corporations whoms products have been steadily declining in quality for the last 10 years. Mister CEO doesn't want a guard rail, he wants a traffic warden.