id and Valve. They are perfect for each other. They can now spit roast the PC community. Then they will high five and switch. "I'm a PC...and using non-dedicated servers was my idea"
That's about as likely as me playing by somebody elses rules, which I would never do. I only play by my own rules, nobody elses...not even my own.
vlad321 said:
I wonder how they will fare. Let me put it this way. Friken Firaxis bent their head on spore DRM when they tried to protect the game from pirates. I don't know if you've heard of them but their games have sold more than just about all Activision only games to have come out combined. They bent dwon to the customers. You honestly osme fucks like IW won't get hammered an annhilated by piracy? You sir, are wrong. |
You need to get some anger management therapy dude.......
PS3-Xbox360 gap : 1.5 millions and going up in PS3 favor !
PS3-Wii gap : 20 millions and going down !
richardhutnik said:
I am going to try to factor in the Pros and Cons of all sides here. Dedicated Servers: * Enable the community to tweak and mod, and play their creations * Enable pirates to play their games, without getting caught * Enable playing games without getting hit with ads.
Non-Dedicated: * Crack down on piracy, forcing only legal copy of the games to be played. * Generate ad revenues and other streams of income, by forcing all traffic to a common community point. This also helps players find new players. |
Then I'm all for this. IW made the right decision. Piracy must be reduced.
Actually, I'd say it's more likely to get pirated in its current state- people will be far less willing to fork out for a short single player game with crippled multiplayer.
As Xelloss stated, using dedicated servers is completely unrelated to piracy. It's the use of steam as a DRM that's going to reduce piracy. I think (I'm not 100% sure) that CoD4 uses SecuROM as a DRM, and it sucks major dinosaur balls both for the consumer and the developer.
| burning_phoneix said: As Xelloss stated, using dedicated servers is completely unrelated to piracy. It's the use of steam as a DRM that's going to reduce piracy. I think (I'm not 100% sure) that CoD4 uses SecuROM as a DRM, and it sucks major dinosaur balls both for the consumer and the developer. |
How so?
Slimebeast said:
How so? |
A better question is how are dedicated servers related to piracy. People just know " PC devs/publishers sometimes do dumb stuff in the name of piracy" and "IW did something retarded" and automatically seem to assume they are related.
Xelloss said:
A better question is how are dedicated servers related to piracy. People just know " PC devs/publishers sometimes do dumb stuff in the name of piracy" and "IW did something retarded" and automatically seem to assume they are related. |
Cos it's harder to succeed logging in to a matchmaking service with a pirated copy if it's the matchmaking service that checks the validity of the code (CD key). Maybe?
We will still have Doom 2 and Quake 3 Arena... *sobs*
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