If Stardock Fails

shadow131

Join Date 07/2007

If Stardock Fails

DRMs will become norm

If Stardock fails it will be the final nail in the coffin for PC gaming. DRM has become an increasing hassle to gamers, which has weakened PC game sales and has imo increased piracy. Agravated gamers have been asking for a cut back on DRM promising better sales and a hopful decrease in piracy. Stardock took this request to heart and put their games on the line, while other companies fortified their DRMs.

Perhaps the average PC gamer is logical and has only been using piracy as a way to rebel against the growing DRMs. And will make Stardock and all of it's wonderful games the symbol that the PC market can only excist when companies and gamers are at an understanding.

However I'm certain if Stardock fails and their sales dwindle because of piracy DRMs will become worse and much more wide spread. Stardock would no longer be assosiated with hope against piracy but as the reason DRMs are NEEDED.

this is of course all my opinion and I would like to hear everyones views

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Quoting ManSh00ter,

reply 8

Stardock is not the only one. Bethesda, for example, will have only a simple disc check on Fallout 3. This is viewed negatively by some in the gaming industry, but those are just people who still do not realize that the only ones benefitting from DRM are companies which produce and sell DRM security "solutions". To this day no DRM scheme has lasted more than a week or two at the outmost. If it's a program, it can be hacked.

I heard that Bioshock was cracked in numbers ranging from 2 to 11 days (google "Bioshock cracked in * days"). And that one was supposed to be the "Big win" for DRM. Also, regarding Fallout 3, that's awesome news. Although I would like it more if they got rid of the need for a CD alltogether. I preordered mine 2 months ago because I liked oblivion, and always thought the game could be improved with guns and more zombies

Quoting Zanyth0x42,

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Personally I bought Sins of a Solar Empire as soon as I heard they were going to trust people with the lack of DRM on the game, and I plan on continuing to buy their products/use impulse to support it (and honestly having Impulse around to download/install things whenever I want is awesome)

Same. I bought the game simply to feel good about myself for having one of the rarest types of games possible: decent ones without Suck-u-Rom or similar. Then I played it and felt even better .

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What gaming companies don't realize is that as long as they continue to pound on PC gamers, those same people are going to be fighting back, either legally through lawsuits, or illegally, through hacked copies of games offered for free on the internet. Consumers feel like they are being punished, so they retaliate. Many developers have this idea stuck in their heads that they will lose millions because of piracy. Spore is nearing the two million mark on units sold. At fifty bucks a unit, thats a 100 million dollars.

Now let me ask you all something. Do you think it cost EA even close to 100 million to create, advertise and distribute Spore? Please. It's not a major hollywood motion picture. They pay programmers and project managers, not actors and directors.

I'd like to see the breakdown of how much it cost to make Spore. If they can show me that even one programmer had to take a paycut because of piracy, I'll concede the point about DRMs being necessary.

The only thing EA executives are concerned about is a cut into their profit margins. They won't be able to afford that new BWM for Christmas! BooHoo!

The Evil Ampire failed in it's take over of Take Two, thankfully. The only reason they keep gobbling up smaller developers is because their own sales were waning. All EA really has are its sports games. Everything else they've made has been mediocre at best. I hope that some of those companies who don't believe in or use heavy DRMs will band together and make a competing conglomerate against EA. Hmmmmm, Stardock and Bethesda....OMG....yes...it's sooooooooo good. Fallout of a Solar Empire

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What kills me is that EA Games is finally, finally coming out with good games, new IPs that aren't rehashed (Dead Space, I'm looking at you) and I still won't buy or support them because of draconian DRM. So they'll 1) scream about pirates and 2) stop innovating.

Both bad for us as gamers.

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