Do you think this idea would work (DRM Related)?

[SvennoJ]

archer9234 said:

SvennoJ said:

Kids nowadays right ;)
Back in my day I had to turn or change Laserdiscs every 45 minutes during a movie, max that fits on each side. And those are heavy :p

But it does feel a bit pointless to have to insert the disc if the game is fully installed anyway. If people were simply honest and uninstalled it before selling the disc. What a silly notion. We have a long way to go as humanity.

PC's been doing that since 1996.

No, a lot of games needed the disc inserted on startup. For example to play IL-2 Sturmovik in Lan or Need for Speed Porsche unleashed, we had to pass the disc around on startup. At least you could play 1 copy on upto 4 PCs over LAN. I don't know how many actually as I always downloaded the no disc check crack from a BBS. Others needed some random word from a manual which was also easily removed.

Then the internet became standard and online activation took over making the discs worthless. Pretty much silently killing the second hand PC game market. Physical PC games nowadays are nothing more than an install disc with online activation code. Playing over LAN with one copy was killed at the same time. Now you get a small discount when you buy a 4 pack to play together, rip off.