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Remember back when the Half life code was stolen. Well apparently it wasn't stolen - Potato Pot

What would stealing be in a digital enviroment. Dowloading code off a developers FTP and then deleting it, so you were the only one with a copy ?. The illustration assumes the importance of an orginal in it's definition of the concept of stealing. That seems innacurate to me.

The thing about that is that in a digital environment the concept of 'original' ceases to be important. A little bit of apples and oranges going on here. The stealing illustration assumes the presence and the relative importance of an original. More to the point, Piracy is 'Robin Hood' stealing, Stealing is well, just stealing.

Compare and contrast http://www.mobygames.com/game/amiga/x-com-...nse/screenshots And now screenshots from Steam http://store.steampowered.com/app/7650/

It is a bit disapointing that they couldn't manage to integrate the Amiga/Playstation textures though.

A risk i'll take, having just looked at my latest power bill.

Don't forget random explosions! actually when you think about it XCOM already has bullet time.

Meh. Does the world need a streamlined realtime XCOM remake? XCOM with bullet time and romances. Win!

If someone can't play the first 2 XCOm games because they are ugly that's your loss. They are still 2 of the best video games ever made, which when you think about it, given almost 20 years of technological and gameplay advancement since XCOM was released, is pretty ****ing sad. Well the Amiga and Playstation ports are the same game, only with tolerable graphics. Come to think of it you could probably play the Amiga versions with an emulator. If anything like that still exists.

The problem there is that the good versions are the playstation ports + the Amiga releases. Terror from the deep and UFO defense, which you can stand looking at. The PC versions are nothing short of the ugliest dates at the DOS graphics party.

Politically high impact arms deals are surely problematic in their own right. The US has an arms industry that needs customers, and the president can't refuse sales without extraordinary circumstances, he has to distabilise the world with one hand and stablilise it with the other.

Wasen't the 'Italian' elf assassin from Orlay as well.

It's not that hard being philantropic when you have made more money than you could spend in a lifetime, but yeah at least he's got the right idea. Good on him.

If the other DLCs are anything to go by you will get a suit of armor and 15 minuites of gameplay out of your 3

Looks like it's being played with a controller in the demo. I wonder if it's one of those games like Deadspace who consider mouse users as an afterthought. I can't play a shooter if it's still got auto aiming, 'snap to' functions or periphiral pointer slowdowns around the target.

Quite the romantic Digmeat. Who would have thunk.

Companies are unable to settle for 'good enough' they want to solve the issue. I remember a time when Steam was the worst privacy infringement DRM had to offer. Well, it's also the leading digital distribution system in the industry. Its big flagships like Halflife got cracked because Valve was a prestigeous target, the same reason that Windows will be cracked nomatter how hard it is to do. I suspect this always online thing is also about trying to wedge other things in. Targeted advertising, forcing all players to be part of the inevitable 'online store' function. They aren't doing it just to be stupid, it's all part of a sinister plan.

Yeah things are moving a little too fast. I'm used to being able to edit minor points and spelling without communication issues.

Because doing nothing would be analogous to giving your product away. You will have beaten the illegal downloaders, and bankrupted yourself in the process of course. A Scheme consumers are happy with is not nothing.

As has already been established, you don't need DRM for Law abiding citizens, as they are already paying for the games. Also established, DRM doesn't function as any sort of barrier for pirates. So DRM fails at it's intended purpose of preventing piracy, and your counterargument is that if we stop using it people will stop paying for games? There's a logical fallacy right in the center of your argument. No, what I mean is this. There are people who don't torrent and don't know how to apply a crack, who aren't in the loop, just aren't offended by DRM, spend their time on other more rewarding things... For that demographic DRM is 100% successful. For the other, probably vastly larger group of gamers who do, there is no effective response. So, yes, you punish your core consumer base because it's what you can do. In the end it works out better than doing nothing. You guys need to wrap your heads around the fact that DRM can be effective for some people. The speed with which games are released illegally, or the ease with which DRM can be bypassed doesn't change that. When DRM gets draconian it's because the companies think they finally know a way to get ahead of the curve, and they are mostly wrong. This is all true.

You do know that the shirt analogy is a really bad one rigth. If you could magically duplicate shirts at no cost we would be getting somewhere. I count CD check in the DRM category, don't you guys ?

They make the developers lose less money than they would have otherwise. DRM doesn't work very well, but it's still better than giving the games away. This is not rocket science, honestly, you seem to be stuck in the same argument. We have already established that DRM has lots of drawbacks, now lets move on. What is the alternative ?. That's right, there isn't one.

They work for the law biding plebs. I know it's a shocking concept, but there are people out there who don't torrent games for no other reason than that it's illegal.

I don't understand the argument for not using DRM. Yes we have establised that it works very poorly, but what is the alternative. 'Prettty please pay us' ?. How are you going to get financing like that. Lets not be naive. No DRM may work for good old games where the development costs are negliable, but it's here to stay, and going without it is not a real option.

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