They are doing this already, now he thinks 2 folding it will actually help get rid of piracy. Not gonna work.
Codemasters CEO: Beat Piracy With Unfinished Games
- Thread starter Andy Chalk
- Start date
I don't know how people have such well paid and important jobs, and still their mind is at a level of ten year old.
You release a game without some important parts, and put the parts as dlc on your website. Then a customer buys it, registers his copy on your website, provides his personal information in order to create account, downloads three 800Mb files and recently released hotfix that allows player to turn on the game after installing missing game parts(authentication system failure), and at long last, puts the 1# dvd into computer, waits till the authentication process ends and plays a game. Sounds splendid, eh? Ah, also when player gets to the downloaded levels half of textures are missing. Whoops, we spend most time trying to delete it from game and you know how hard it is to include it again?
Now let's look at pirate. He buys for less money dvd with game, installs the game and dlcs (already included on dvd), then just click on crack's executable and game is ready to play without need to download dlcs, put in dvd or go through internet authentication process.
That kind of DRM just punishes the people who actually bought the game in store, and pirate's just laugh and enjoy free or almost free game. There is no and there will be no game protection that prevents pirate from playing it. Everything can be broken by experienced crack-making groups like razor1911.
You release a game without some important parts, and put the parts as dlc on your website. Then a customer buys it, registers his copy on your website, provides his personal information in order to create account, downloads three 800Mb files and recently released hotfix that allows player to turn on the game after installing missing game parts(authentication system failure), and at long last, puts the 1# dvd into computer, waits till the authentication process ends and plays a game. Sounds splendid, eh? Ah, also when player gets to the downloaded levels half of textures are missing. Whoops, we spend most time trying to delete it from game and you know how hard it is to include it again?
Now let's look at pirate. He buys for less money dvd with game, installs the game and dlcs (already included on dvd), then just click on crack's executable and game is ready to play without need to download dlcs, put in dvd or go through internet authentication process.
That kind of DRM just punishes the people who actually bought the game in store, and pirate's just laugh and enjoy free or almost free game. There is no and there will be no game protection that prevents pirate from playing it. Everything can be broken by experienced crack-making groups like razor1911.
I mean really, Andy, why didn't you challenge his opinion right after he said all of this drivel?
Does Codemasters really expect people to pay for an unfinished game at full price then each additional piece at DLC level for $5 dollars more?
Furthermore, piracy is the least of his worries at Codemasters. They've been a fairly decent game company with successes such as Grid which I still like to play every now and then.
What boggles my mind is that everyone sees piracy as some supposed problem when maybe, just maybe, they could use the technology (Bittorrent or P2P) to reach newer customers.
But so help me, if he does put out an unfinished game, I can already see the backlash from consumers. I can also see a problem where 5+ years down the road, should the game servers go down, people are left without a game to play.
Does Codemasters really expect people to pay for an unfinished game at full price then each additional piece at DLC level for $5 dollars more?
Furthermore, piracy is the least of his worries at Codemasters. They've been a fairly decent game company with successes such as Grid which I still like to play every now and then.
What boggles my mind is that everyone sees piracy as some supposed problem when maybe, just maybe, they could use the technology (Bittorrent or P2P) to reach newer customers.
But so help me, if he does put out an unfinished game, I can already see the backlash from consumers. I can also see a problem where 5+ years down the road, should the game servers go down, people are left without a game to play.
IF a $40 game is sold at thirty dollars and with ten required bits of DLC for a buck each, why not?
But of course, I doubt it will work for very long.
But of course, I doubt it will work for very long.
Because they would lose the vast majority of console owners that way.lacktheknack said:
Even if console gamers wanted to go along with this scheme, consoles with unlimited online access are still relatively few in number and minors don't have credit/debit cards to pay for the dlc anyway.
At least there are a couple people in this thread who know what the real issue is. Do you guys really think that these EXTREMELY STUPID ASS IDEAS to combat piracy are actually going to work? No. It's more like, "beat second hand sales with unfinished games". That's what almost every one of these "make-no-sense" "anti piracy" measures are targeting. These CEO's may be assholes but they aren't stupid.
I could see this approach working as long as the initial price of the game off the shelf is dropped to compensate. I'd pay $40 for a game with $20 in day one DLC. I'm paying the same price for the game in the end, it's just a bit of a hassle to download all the extra stuff before I can play.
No, god NO! Anything but that...Christ, you're selling an unfinished game, then offering people to pay extra to actually provide a full experience intended? This is just plain evil and stupid.
Which is all the greater a reason to shamelessly pirate their asses off.Yosharian said:
Dear devs: give us a good game and we'll say "shut up and take my money!"
Treat us like assholes, and there'll always be someone that'll break your DRM, release your DLC for free, and generally be a complete and utter jackass and make you look like a complete moron.
And guess who any smart person will be downloading from...
(Hint hint, it's not the guys with the DRM)
What an idiot. Many games are released before they should be and have made obvious cuts. Don't make it worse.
You can't "beat" piracy. It's not going to happen, you're delusional if you think otherwise. How can you reduce it? It's not with DRM and other crap like that. It's by making a good game and earning the respect of the gamers who play them.
You can't "beat" piracy. It's not going to happen, you're delusional if you think otherwise. How can you reduce it? It's not with DRM and other crap like that. It's by making a good game and earning the respect of the gamers who play them.
Ya thats a great plan. Dirt 3 isn't seeing a huge backlash against its massive dlc insanity or anything. So go with unfinished games ... People won't buy your games, they won't pirate them either. You'll just be out of business. And I'll be happy your gone Codemasters.