Things that should be done to break the piracy debate.

[Azisien]

Originally Posted by Mirai Gen

"I miss the free stuff they'd put with games like cloth maps. Those were cool."
"Yeah, it's just like that one contest Mirai made a thread about, where they designed the game to be a competition for golden treasure that only one person would get."
"...what?"

I really like Steam. I have no problem with it. I just wish that games stopped creating their own Steam engines, then selling it on Steam.

Also wish there was some way to avoid the digital games market from exploding to much beyond Steam and the few others (D2D, GG, etc). The idea is to have a platform to launch your games off of (and get the games pretty cheap, too), no point having a bajillion platforms out there.

I kind of got that impression when I watched a video on the "new" Battlenet, and it just sounded like Facebook Steam for Blizzard. Which is dumb.

[Jagos]

To be fair, Blizzard's battlenet has been around the block for a few years. Maybe they just wanted an upgrade. Though you're still right in that they're really taking this social gaming aspect a smidge too far.

[Seil]

"I miss the free stuff they'd put with games like cloth maps. Those were cool."
"Yeah, it's just like that one contest Mirai made a thread about, where they designed the game to be a competition for golden treasure that only one person would get."
"...what?"

And the t-shirts, the comic books, whatever. (I had also found the Swordquest vid a bit ago, being a noted AVGN fan. There's also the fact that Swordquest is an extreme example, and probably worked best to emphasize hype based around give-aways and merchandise associated with a game. Also, it seems to be some of the first to have t-shirts and whatever as a bonus with the purchase. It seems to work well with my point.

[Ecks]

Originally Posted by DFM

Came in to say what Loyal said and that I've purposefully misread every instance of "DRM" and that because of it this is my favorite thread.

Wish I could say the same. Both leave a bad taste in my mouth *cough*VampiretheMasqueradeLP*cough*

[Azisien]

Well I didn't notice this until recently, but Steam entries actually describe what kind of DRM the game you're purchasing has. I like the Assassin's Creed 2 one:

Originally Posted by Steam

3rd-party DRM: UBISOFT REQUIRES A PERMANENT HIGH SPEED INTERNET CONNECTION AND CREATION OF A UBISOFT ACCOUNT TO PLAY THIS VIDEO GAME AT ALL TIMES.

You go girl! P.S. nice typo!

[bluestarultor]

Originally Posted by Jagos

To be fair, Blizzard's battlenet has been around the block for a few years. Maybe they just wanted an upgrade. Though you're still right in that they're really taking this social gaming aspect a smidge too far.

To be honest, I don't think there was any way they could have fixed the steaming pile of gaping security holes that was the old Battlenet. If you literally have to live in fear of every leet-speaking idiot actually hacking your computer, there is something gravely wrong with the system.


Edit: ^^ It's not a typo depending on how Ubisoft is pronounced. If it's like I say it and "OO bee soft" they are incorrect. However, I've also heard it pronounced "YOO bee soft" and the consonantal "Y" sound would render it appropriate.

[Loyal]

If you literally have to live in fear of every leet-speaking idiot actually hacking your computer, there is something gravely wrong with the system.

What the hell kind of Battle.net have you been playing on?

[bluestarultor]

Originally Posted by Loyal

What the hell kind of Battle.net have you been playing on?

Not me, but someone I know actually was online with a friend and some leet-speaker told them to give him some rare and wonderful item the friend had or he'd hack him and wipe his hard drive. They told him where to put it and kept playing, but the friend blipped out and was gone for quite a while. When he came back, it turned out the little bugger had actually started to follow through on his threat and the friend had to kill his power to stop the wipe and performed some recovery and cleanup.

[Azisien]

Originally Posted by bluestarultor

Edit: ^^ It's not a typo depending on how Ubisoft is pronounced. If it's like I say it and "OO bee soft" they are incorrect. However, I've also heard it pronounced "YOO bee soft" and the consonantal "Y" sound would render it appropriate.

Yeeeeah no, I've never heard it pronounced that way, in dozens of trailers, interviews, or reviews, many by Ubisoft officials themselves?

Originally Posted by Loyal

What the hell kind of Battle.net have you been playing on?

Actually, my Diablo II accounts have been hacked several times. It's the only account I've had on the Internet, EVER, to get hacked. So battlenet 0, rest of internet 1.

[bluestarultor]

Originally Posted by Azisien

Yeeeeah no, I've never heard it pronounced that way, in dozens of trailers, interviews, or reviews, many by Ubisoft officials themselves?

Yahtzee is one example of pronouncing it with a "Y" sound. I'm not saying it's correct, just that I've heard it.