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Ubisoft’s Rayman Origins is easily one of the best games released last year. About as proximate to perfection as possible in a planar platformer, Rayman Origins charmed the pants off of us - and got the nod as our favourite platformer of 2011. PC gamers will finally get the chance to jump around as everybody’s favourite limbless heroes in March - and ... [»]
While there are very few things that gamers can agree on, a universal hate for DRM seems to be one of the few issues wherein players can reach a mutual understanding. Paradox Interactive CEO Fred Wester feels the same way, and has labelled the system as a complete waste ... [»]
Ubisoft’s future-based city-building sim Anno 2070 is a pretty great game. If it has one mighty flaw though, it’s in its implementation of the nasty Tages DRM system. As we told you last week, the game allows for three installations - but a simple change in hardware, such as putting in a new graphics card - eats up one of those installs. Many though it might be a ... [»]
Its safe to say that no one likes Digital Rights Management. A system wherein publishers can protect their properties, DRM is a rather intrusive and irritating method to combat piracy, and it’s here to stay unfortunately.
But that’s fine, we can live with those gripes and complaints, as long as we get to play our favourite games. And we want those games ... [»]
The Witcher 2, while currently a PC exclusive title with an Xbox port on the way, has been a marvellous success for developer CD Projekt. It’s sold millions of copies, and would have been an even bigger success if it weren’t for software pirates, who buccaneered the game into incredibly high numbers of illegal downloads.
And despite all this, the studio refused to implement any draconian DRM onto their title, standing firm behind a policy ... [»]
I’ve been pretty vocal about my dislike for intrusive, draconian Digital Rights Management. Though I understand and agree with the need for publishers and developers to protect their work, the problem is that DRM doesn’t stop piracy one bit, and instead becomes an annoying encumbrance to legitimate purchasers, who have to dance ... [»]
Valve’s Gabe Newell speaking to Geekwire has said that contrary to what publishers and developers believe, that Piracy stems not from people’s unwillingness to pay money - but rather because it’s convenient. Because of that, great service is key to curbing piracy - not draconian DRM systems."One thing that we have learned is that piracy is not a pricing issue. It's ... [»]
When Ubisoft released From Dust and people realised it had always on DRM the pirates of the Internet celebrated, they could now show their filthy faces for a short time and justify their nefarious practices. If only there were no DRM, they cried, we would then buy all ... [»]
Do you hate having to keep your PC constantly connected to the net in order to enjoy a few rounds of fragging or dungeon-questing, thinking that the practice is a draconian method of stopping video game pirates? That may be true, but the FPS studio that built Quake and Doom, id, thinks that a constant ... [»]
Oh dear. Ubisoft’s PC games of late have all been shipping with just about the most ridiculous DRM yet conceived; the devious combination of SecuROM and the need for a permanent, always-on internet connection. This caused some serious backlash, especially with Assassin’s Creed 2, where saves were also stored on the cloud. Hackers temporarily took Ubisoft’s authentication server down, leaving people with legitimate copies unable to ... [»]
In our team Nick is by far and away the biggest driving fan around, if you get him talking about lap times and wheels and stuff he just pretty much never shuts up. While the rest of of us sneak out the back ... [»]
Piracy is a huge problem in the video game industry; even the good games, that people rightly should buy end up getting copied, downloaded and shared. It’s a tricky thing, because while it obviously leads to loss of income for the developers it’s not quite as simple as saying it’s a lost sale for every pirated copy. Piracy (and to the same extent, second-hand sales) can have even have a ... [»]
CD Projekt’s RPG du jour The Witcher 2 has been patched, fixing a host of issues, increasing performance - and most notably removes DRM from the game."Our goal is to make our fans and customers happy and to reward them for buying our game and DRM schemes does not support our philosophy as they might create obstacles for users of legally bought copies,†said CD Projekt development director Adam Badowski."Our approach to countering piracy is to incorporate superior value in the legal version. This means ... [»]
Good news everyone! That abysmal, always-on DRM that Ubisoft shoehorned into their PC titles as of last year has been removed from the upcoming PC release of Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood. Initially, PC gamers were bracing themselves for being at the mercy of sporadic internet connections getting them booted from their single ... [»]
You know how it goes, one day you are being asked to type in the third word from paragraph 4 of the 22nd page of a manual, and the next you are dealing with genetically engineered company representatives.
It's the way DRM is going, this seems to be the only logical solution. Oh and thanks again GeoHot, you toss-jockey.
Awesome comic from the Ctrl-Alt-Del ... [»]
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