World of Goo has 90% piracy rate

[Squilliam]

Khuutra said:

Squilliam said:

Khuutra said:
Tell me how, Squilliam

Tell me so that I may write them a letter demanding it

Microsoft controls Direct 3d, they work with the graphics vendors (AMD/Nvidia and later Intel) to install trusted computing modules in their graphics hardware. They can't control all of the piracy out there but by making it a complete PITA to do, only the most dedicated to not paying would actually do it.

You need graphics hardware to run pretty much any game out there, so thats the best place to use copy protection. If it gets cracked they can simply update the protection every time a new version of Direct X comes out.

 

 

That.... that's evil.

Kind of an awesome idea, though.

People would scream murder and it would possibly kill Linux gaming dead since they don't have native Direct 3d.

But it would seriously hurt piracy, a lot.