iD Software thinks forcing always-on DRM a good idea

[Euphoria14]

Ail said:

Euphoria14 said:

Ail said:

SeriousWB said:

Ail said:
I'm all for it too !
That's what you get for years of constant piracy........

They'll get years of constant piracy as a result too.

Lol

There's one gaming segment that has been always on for the last 10 years+.

it's call MMORPG and there's the one segment not suffering massively from piracy.......

MMO's can be pirated. Just download the torrent file, install the game and then play on a private server.

There are quite a few large sized private servers out there pal.

yep Wow has been constantly on the top of the torrent download for the last few years .

/sarcasm off

Are you comparing games that sell 1 million copies and get downloaded 3 millions times on torrent with games that sells 20 million copies and get downloaded 100 000 times ?

 

How many copies each game sells legitimately is irrelevant. WoW isn't the only MMORPG in existance, it is only the most popular. CoD is the highest selling title every single year while also the most pirated. I wouldn't be surprised if WoW is the most pirated MMO out there as well.

Also MMOs, thanks to private servers enable even legit buyers of the software to completely bypass paying the monthly fee. Once again this is valid on any MMO, regardless of what it's sales are. Those games are vulnerable in more than one way. Legit buyer who plays without paying monthly fee and pirates who bypass initial purchase as well as monthly fee.

This stupid DRM idea serves no purpose for any of us here whether you think it does or does not and their reasoning (Auto-updating) is lame too. Frequent patches happen really only at the beginning of an MMO's life, after that you may see one, maybe two a year.

I was shocked if I saw a Diablo 2 update once a year.