So, from the DMRs that allow file sharers (they are not pirates, pirates steal shit on sea, idiotic media figured terms would match) to play while normal player cant, they now make it so cracked versions will be superior, and they expect this to work? they should rethink their strategy.
Rage Cuts Single-Player When You Buy It Used
- Thread starter Mike Kayatta
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The best and ONLY way for "Publishers to protect their content" is to make fantastic games that people want to buy, at a reasonable price, unencumbered by DRM or any of the myriad money-grab DLC schemes that have become so popular as of late.
Why is everyone getting so angry? Why are you all so against buying games new? Either way its not like they're ripping out the entire second half of the game. People are proclaiming that they're not going to buy the game now at all because some small extra content is locked for second hand copies. Its not like a few bonus hatches are gonna turn your gaming experience from a 5 to a 10/10. Just relax and enjoy the game.
But...But Pirates get the best deals EVER, then! How can you beat the price of free?!El Luck said:
Or fuck Torrents. If you go to a DVD store in any shopping mall in any Indian city, you can get a bootleg double Dvd copy of ANY retail game for like.....~100 rupees. No DRM. No cut levels. No multiplayer though.... But still 100 rupees. That's literally 2 fucking Dollars! So Indian gamers are getting the best bargain deals of all time! And apparently you can't blame them for doing that?
And technically the gamers themselves aren't stealing cause they are paying some random third party that is not affiliated with any publishers, for their used games. Sound familiar?
The trouble is that this attitude is entitlement, with the legal and, tbh, moral argument being that games are a luxury, not a necessity, and that it is up to the publisher and distributor to decide on what a 'fair' price is in the first place. You have very little ground to stand on. You could claim the prices demanded of you are too high and unaffordable, but it's the same for any other good; you aren't entitled to a Ferrari or Lamborghini just because they cost too much and you can't afford them, and the same applies here to your entertainment.raklin said:
Do I personally think game prices are too high? Yeah, perhaps, especially for the quantity of content and on occasion quality being sold, and a lot of that is down to so much being spent on graphics for those money shots. However, that is the price that they are being sold at. If you don't like it and can't afford it then you WILL have to wait up to a year for sale prices to come up, because that's the way it works. Or you could pre-order games, and save 10% on a title you were planning on buying anyway and get it on release.
In short, being poor isn't a valid excuse, and neither is lack of patience.
Not necessarily.suitepee7 said:
You could just wait, y'know, a few months until the price for a new copy of the game drops to about 75% of its price? How about the post-Christmas sales?
I think it's quite a good way of doing DRM.
