It's tied to the console and gamertag, if the HD is switched to another console you can't play the full game until you go online. At that point it can be 'registered' to the new console, or kept on the previous one.Onyx Oblivion said:
The most recent PS3 updates are to fix exploits that could allow people to develop programs to play downloaded games. I'm half expecting that this year a 100% working and easy to use crack gets released.Delusibeta said:
But the PS3 has yet to be publicly cracked yet, while the 360 which can be modded to play pirated games didn't get the DRM... (Key word is "yet", but still, Capcom is definitely aiming at the wrong target here.)Sober Thal said:
I don't think the point is them "aiming at the wrong target" as much as it is them having targets at all. The only people these things hurt are the paying customers. The people that get the games by other means will eventually crack it so that they can bypass it. Sure they may have to wait a bit to get it that way but once they do, Capcom has done nothing to protect their interests and have a lot of pissed of paying customers who might ot might not buy more of their endless parade of sequels.Delusibeta said:
That's really dumb. This kind of idiotic piracy "prevention" only drives people to pirate games more. Piracy is absolutely a huge problem, and pirates are absolutely hurting the game industry, but this DRM nonsense is quite clearly making pirated versions of a game better than the properly purchased versions. How in the world is that supposed to make people pirate games less???Sober Thal said:
Capcom is aiming directly at game sharing. People can debate piracy all they want, but like you said, the PS3 hasn't been broken yet. So why else would Capcom do something like this? Consoles are becoming more like pc's every day. In both the good and bad aspects. Want to play multi-player? Well, make sure everyone has their own copy of a game. And forget about single disc split screen!Delusibeta said:
What they say and what they mean aren't necessarily the same thing. Take piracy, or the kind of piracy we have today, out of the picture and they'd put something else in its place.Sober Thal said:
Oh, don't get me wrong, I agree that the DRM is a bad idea for all the reasons that you name. It's just that, having been downloaded, the seller at least has some notion that at some time the buyer had the ability to play the game. Contrasting that with a boxed single-player game that some poor schmuck bought, failing to notice the tiny print on the back saying that it requires an internet connection, and which, once opened, the purchaser can only return for the same game...SirPumpkinLongshanks said:
That's the question running through my mind. I look at that picture and think to myself I could just be playing Street Fighter 2 on my Genesis. DUH.Hurr Durr Derp said:
PC elitism alert. You make it sound like PC gamers don't also own a console. Also it wouldn't work for discs, just downloaded games because so far, consoles don't need a live connection...yet.johnman said:
