Latest Ubisoft DRM measure - all SP saves stored on a cloud server - by EvaUnit02
Jason Moyer on 1/3/2010 at 19:16
Quote Posted by Nameless Voice
If you steal a piece of software, no
direct harm or loss comes to the owner of that software.
Aside from the cost of customer service, or the cost of providing multiplayer matchmaking (or servers, in some cases). The worst part of piracy, imho, is that it doesn't just equal no sale, in a lot of cases companies lose money supporting people who never paid them a dime.
Nameless Voice on 2/3/2010 at 00:45
Only idiot pirates ask for technical support for games they didn't buy.
june gloom on 2/3/2010 at 01:36
More often than not, pirated games will work on singleplayer but not on multiplayer. There goes that argument!
mothra on 2/3/2010 at 08:49
holy - 2mbps ? are they cloning my systemdrive while I play ?
Yakoob on 2/3/2010 at 09:24
They're not cloning your system drive, mothra.
They're cloning you.
june gloom on 2/3/2010 at 10:38
Oh god first they take away our simple disc checks then they slap us with constant internet requirements and now they give us more mothras? Those dastards.
EvaUnit02 on 2/3/2010 at 10:51
Requires a 2Mbps connection? FUCK, AC2 is going to be absolutely unplayable for me then. :mad:
zombe on 2/3/2010 at 10:53
Quote Posted by Harvester
So what? It's the same with used cars and everything else that is being sold second-hand. And no one is saying that you shouldn't buy a used car because the manufacturer doesn't get any money then.
An analogy with cars in it - yay!
How about: Buying a ticket to see a movie in cinema and expecting to sell the ticket after cinema session in second-hand market.
As with games,
usually the experience is sold and not the bits-n-bytes used to convey it (because, unlike a car, bits-n-bytes are trivial to duplicate). You can not resell your experience, only the means to convey it - WHICH WAS NOT WHAT YOU BOUGHT! In that sense, immho, second-hand == piracy.
Not saying teh customer should not complain and exercise his perpetual outcry to get everything, how they want it, when they want it, without ever paying a single cent for it. Nor that publisher should not try the exact opposite.
I personally can not care less about second-hand market regarding PC-games - as long as the methods used to prevent it does not get in my way (Ubisofts method sounds as it definitely does).
DDL on 2/3/2010 at 13:02
With a movie ticket you also couldn't rewatch the movie as many times as you liked, so the analogy isn't that great. Buying a DVD of the movie would perhaps be closer, and then the argument no longer holds up.
