Paradox CEO on DRM

[Fenrisulven 1]

Fred Wester calls SecuROM "a Waste of Money"

♥ Paradox

[nodunit 397]

Ah if only more publishers had the mentality of them, and they're right..why punish the honest customer when the pirate can get things much easier, in essence you're practicly promoting piracy because of the DRM. Funny how that works.

[Fenrisulven 1]

Ah if only more publishers had the mentality of them, and they're right..why punish the honest customer when the pirate can get things much easier, in essence you're practicly promoting piracy because of the DRM. Funny how that works.

I wholeheartedly agree. Not to mention Arma series have some collection value for milsim nuts like us, and what a shame it would be if you suddenly can't run them on a brand new system because of some shitty DRM.

[Tonci87 163]

But people who purchase a game should have just as easy a time as those who pirate the game, otherwise it’s a negative incentive to buy a legal copy. And I just can’t see why people are using DRM still. If you take something like Sony’s DRM, SecuROM -- it’s a waste of money. It will keep you protected for three days, it will create a lot of technical support, and it will not increase sales.

^this

[onlyrazor 11]

My favourite source of amusement from smug publishers is when they say "no-one can crack our brand new DRM system" and it gets cracked in about 15 hours. Give or take

I like Arma's system. It hasn't caused me any anguish.

[ACPL Jon 68]

Same here.

[vilas 477]

securing legal things (bought in shop) can be pain in the ass

and it makes piracy bigger

why?

explanation:

man bought legal soft , he need to enter code, he entered...

soft asks for letter/email to company to register... okay, but what if you have no net in bureau ?

so you send letter

unlock software, but you must push disc to drive, what if disc will be scratched ??? (i payed for software, but disc drive scratch it, so why i would have to buy it again ??? or what when i want to start 2 applications but i have only one drive ??? )

3 months later your VGA burned, you are changing it and ... soft asks for new code

so you email company for new code and you get answer:

"sir , why do you need another code"?

instead of this you download illegal and it simply works

so what software do you prefer ?

this which you "install and use"

or this with which you always:

- have to move to station and put disc and listen to goddamn disc run (sometimes noisy, if you have laptop it is near, but if you have work station 1 meter away and have to go beneath desk )

- letter to company for codes, unlocking registration etc ...?

i have in my work soft which requires USB key, what a mess... in poor motherboard i cannot use pendrive or printer together (only one USB works )

also "if 2 people copied 1 disc" than "at least one disc was sold"

if "they cannot copy, they will download it"

so what is better ?

"to sell one disc more" (used by 2-3 people who joined money) or "to not sell even one copy" ?

i remember 10-15 years ago, when people were buying games (era of not fast internet) on university

one was buying, 2 others were using

so there were sales

for 200 students at least 50 copies were bought (and played by 2-3-4 people at one time, only need to install and have fun)

when strong copy-protection and disc-in-drive was made ... students started to use torrents (or whatever was it's name back then), and buying 0 copies

so what is better ?

sell 50 copies to use by 200 men

or sell 0 copies ? cause they will be angry when soft asks for push disc into drive (i also hate it, but Arma has no-cd patches by BIS)

Edited January 26, 2012 by vilas

[onlyrazor 11]

so what software do you prefer ?

this which you "install and use"

or this with which you always:

- have to move to station and put disc and listen to goddamn disc run (sometimes noisy, if you have laptop it is near, but if you have work station 1 meter away and have to go beneath desk )

- letter to company for codes, unlocking registration etc ...?

Freeware, clearly. There's always a decent freeware alternative to software :D

[vilas 477]

Freeware, clearly. There's always a decent freeware alternative to software :D

show me freeware:

- operating system running games like Arma,

enough ?

no? now if you say about freeware, show me free games , free autocads counterparts etc.

can't find ?

freeware is graphical or office , but neither technical nor entertaiment

good that many developers start do do online-download sales

it is cheaper for us, it is better for them too :) just like buying BAF or PMC

unpacked and it works :) without any numbers or insert disc stuff

Edited January 26, 2012 by vilas

[Tonci87 163]

I remeber when I once bought spellforce: The installation asked me to enter the serial key that is printed on the back of the manual and I couldn´t find it. I searched and searched but no CD Key. After some minutes I found it somewhere in the manual (I´m not really sure if it was really the manual and yeah nice way to make people read that damn thing).

BIS does it right. On the back of the manual and easy to read. I´m ok with that

[vilas 477]

i had once upon a time (before google translator era) dictionary which :

- had code for first instal

- than required disc and register code from company (by post letter)

- when you changed anything hardware code changing and ... write letter to company again

it was... 50 EU software :( such protection like it was 100000 EU soft

i will never buy such dictionary from that company again (now we have google translator, nice)

when my neigbor asked me (10 years ago) about dictionary and i told about mine, he downloaded cracked version... no letters required, no CD-in and all worked since install

i had to send letters by post to get codes (which worked till VGA was changed)

[froggyluv 2136]

Love them and that pic of War of the Roses has me salivating.

[Fenrisulven 1]

My favourite source of amusement from smug publishers is when they say "no-one can crack our brand new DRM system" and it gets cracked in about 15 hours. Give or take

I like Arma's system. It hasn't caused me any anguish.

Take On use SecuROM. Arma 3?

[spooky lynx 73]

Make good soft and people will buy it just to thank devs. Make good films and music and people will buy it. Make good things but not one-day trash.

[whisper 0]

freeware is graphical or office , but neither technical nor entertaiment

Errrr, what? Nothing freeware for technical stuff? I wonder how I can work here using completely free OS and softwares!! Must be a miracle!