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NJ5 on 03 September 2008
twesterm said:
You know, if I was to ever make a game, I would leak a torrent out there a few weeks early of my game. The only catch would be that this version of the game comes with something that starts eating your hard drive after a certain date and at certain dates after that.

I'd start making people paranoid to pirate my shit. Let them sue me and admit that they're pirating crap because the pirated versions are the only ones that has that code.


So you'd fight something illegal and damaging by doing something even more illegal and more damaging?

Sounds like a great plan ;)

 



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NiKKoM on 03 September 2008

What?? no Mac torrent??? Damn those pirates!! the ninja's must still have it!!



 

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Ares on 03 September 2008

I thought in buy spore, but that time I'm going to trow the blame in DRM. I use my PC to test hardware and other OSs all the time, Spore have a 3 times limit install, if I install it in Xp32, XP64 and try to emulate it in my Ubuntu, it is all gone and I don't want to phone then for a new serial.

EA insists in treat original buyers like pirates, so I'm going to be a pirate to be treated nice.



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Showertea on 03 September 2008

I think instead of 'no shame' you mean 'a copy of spore'.



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Million on 03 September 2008

@Showerta , lol.




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Kasz216 on 03 September 2008
Ares said:
I thought in buy spore, but that time I'm going to trow the blame in DRM. I use my PC to test hardware and other OSs all the time, Spore have a 3 times limit install, if I install it in Xp32, XP64 and try to emulate it in my Ubuntu, it is all gone and I don't want to phone then for a new serial.

EA insists in treat original buyers like pirates, so I'm going to be a pirate to be treated nice.

It does show how worthless the DRM really was.  Has any DRM ever actually stopped pirates?  Or even stalled them?

The argumenets for DRM are pretty silly when the downloadble pirate copys always come out before the game even realeases.

 

 



kergeten on 03 September 2008

I've played spore for a few hours now and all I can say is it's appealing but ultimately mediocre, as in, the first stage is a mediocre Flow game, the second is a mediocre grinder RPG and then a mediocre RTS. It is fun, but really it feels like a cheap 4 in 1 game pack.



rendo on 03 September 2008
kergeten said:
I've played spore for a few hours now and all I can say is it's appealing but ultimately mediocre, as in, the first stage is a mediocre Flow game, the second is a mediocre grinder RPG and then a mediocre RTS. It is fun, but really it feels like a cheap 4 in 1 game pack.

 

I think the game is overhyped, much like a lot of other titles, LBP being the first that comes to mind.  I think the game will be fun, but I don't think it's going to be this epic masterpiece a lot of people believe it will be.



twesterm on 03 September 2008
The Anarchyz said:
twesterm said:
You know, if I was to ever make a game, I would leak a torrent out there a few weeks early of my game. The only catch would be that this version of the game comes with something that starts eating your hard drive after a certain date and at certain dates after that.

I'd start making people paranoid to pirate my shit. Let them sue me and admit that they're pirating crap because the pirated versions are the only ones that has that code.

 

Have you ever heard about weird and dumb lawsuits??? My sister is a lawyer and she told me about how her firm makes settlements and wins court fights from really dumb cases (she told me some of them, i laugh as hell) and most of them are worth hundreds of thousands and millions...

 

If they have a really good lawyer, then they'll win and they'll take you for everything you are worth, that's the reason you can't do that, however, what you can do is do it off the record so they have no proof (but this means that the good code has to be also available for pirates)...

 

It's not my fault they _somehow_ managed to get a hold of an early unreleased to the public build of the game that had that horrible bug in it.  If I really thought it was a problem, I'd just place a EULA in the beginning of that version that right smack dab in the middle of that crap would wave my responsibilities and that the player would have to agree to before starting the game.



 

twesterm on 03 September 2008
NJ5 said:
twesterm said:
You know, if I was to ever make a game, I would leak a torrent out there a few weeks early of my game. The only catch would be that this version of the game comes with something that starts eating your hard drive after a certain date and at certain dates after that.

I'd start making people paranoid to pirate my shit. Let them sue me and admit that they're pirating crap because the pirated versions are the only ones that has that code.


So you'd fight something illegal and damaging by doing something even more illegal and more damaging?

Sounds like a great plan ;)

 

They'll think twice before pirating my game again.