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- hnazareth16, on 12/04/2008, -4/+103In other words, the Internet won't stand for draconian DRM.
- nickhaskell, on 12/04/2008, -1/+74Glorious irony.
- NixiePixel, on 12/05/2008, -2/+59It is great not to see a hit like Sins of a Solar Empire, which came with no DRM/copy protection, on that list.
I think the market is making a strong statement here. - NinjaGod, on 12/05/2008, -3/+51I'm sad to see Fallout 3 on that list, but I'm glad to see that ***** SPORE on it.
- damack, on 12/04/2008, -3/+45I hope this makes it to the front page and gets plenty of attention.
DRM sucks!
It's really fun actually most of these developers are not making any profit too busy trying to protect their investments with crap like DRM when the richest developer on the planet by far is Blizzard who have never even looked twice at DRM. - elitedw, on 12/05/2008, -3/+41I actually torrented spore just cause I was pissed at its DRM. I had no intention to play it.
- chthonical, on 12/05/2008, -2/+33Here's a spoiler: People really liking being able to go out and put down $50 on a good game to support the developers. However, people don't like having a railroad spike pounded into their ass for doing it. *Cough* EA *Cough*.
- djrbx, on 12/05/2008, -4/+34To be honest. I've only downloaded two games off of that list, Spore and C&C3. To also be fair, I never even played Spore cause I didn't have the time and lost interest after the whole DRM incident; and I finished C&C3 within a few hours then never played it again. If developers stop making ***** games that I can enjoy for more that just a day or two, I would be more inclined to fork over the cash to support them. Spending about $60 on a game with almost no GOOD replay value and ***** online experience does not count. Add the DRM fiasco and we just have a whole pile of worms on our hands. They should just drop DRM, make better games, and stop treating customers like thieves. Piracy will never go away but they can prevent it not by DRM like methods, but by giving customers a REAL reason to buy their games.
Example: If a game has a good multiplayer experience, wouldn't a person be more likely to buy the game so they can play it online instead of pirating it and not have the online feature? Look at Left 4 Dead. I bought it for the 360 originally and will probably buy it for the PC as well. Great online features, a whole lot of replay value, addicting, and NO DRM (at least not that I know of). - jacekpoplawski, on 12/05/2008, -1/+291 Spore (1,700,000) (Sept. 2008)
2 The Sims 2 (1,150,000) (Sept. 2004)
3 Assassins Creed (1,070,000) (Nov. 2007)
4 Crysis (940,000) (Nov. 2007)
5 Command & Conquer 3 (860,000) (Mar. 2007)
6 Call of Duty 4 (830,000) (Nov. 2007)
7 GTA San Andreas (740,000) (Jun. 2005)
8 Fallout 3 (645,000) (Oct. 2008)
9 Far Cry 2 (585,000) (Oct. 2008)
10 Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 (470,000) (Oct. 2008) - Slade605, on 12/05/2008, -0/+27As a body builder/construction worker, I was too embarrassed to buy it.
- chthonical, on 12/05/2008, -1/+27To clarify: It uses the SecuROM diskcheck to ensure the DVD is in the drive. It however does not use the rootkit-esque full-blown activation-moderation AIDS version that EA has clung to.
- orthodoxDrew, on 12/05/2008, -1/+26was spore a bust or what? i never played it again after the first sitdown.
- ifonly, on 12/05/2008, -2/+26Yes.
- cle2105, on 12/05/2008, -3/+27Finally someone uses "irony" correctly. Thank you brother, my faith in humanity has been restored
- raydeen, on 12/05/2008, -0/+22Here's the reason you don't see Blizzard games on the list: They focus mostly on multi-player. That requires a valid working key. The games are also so good that even a decade after release they still command a large audience. People will buy quality. People will pirate *****.
- inactive, on 12/05/2008, -0/+22You know what will reduce piracy by a significant amount on pc's? releasing damn demos like they did back in the day, who wants to buy a game just for a "chance" it will work on our system. Release a demo of the game before hand so we can see if it will actually run on our computer or not, and then we can decide to buy the game and upgrade our comps, or not. Majority of downloaded games are unplayable cause of our ***** systems, incorporate that factor onto ur ***** statistics. That's the main reason i download pirated games, to see if it will fukn work or not. n then after all that effort n the DRM *****, I usually cant be ***** buying it even if it does work cause they treat us like *****.
- clipeuh, on 12/04/2008, -6/+26The Sims 2 ??? REALLY ?
- inactive, on 12/05/2008, -4/+22Spore deserved to get pirated since it ***** sucked so much.
Hint to game devs: don't make ***** games. - GhettoOverlord, on 12/05/2008, -5/+21Buried for the correct use of "irony". You're ruining it for everyone else.
- chancesarent, on 12/05/2008, -0/+15Kinda gives you a warm fuzzy in seeing that half this list is EA doesn't it?
- thatonekid393, on 12/05/2008, -4/+18I downloaded Spore just to add to the number of illegal copies downloaded. ***** DRM.
By the way, it wasn't even that good. - Metasquares, on 12/05/2008, -0/+14So how's that DRM working out for you, EA? Preventing lots of piracy?
- fr3ddie, on 12/05/2008, -4/+17Being a pirate is alright with me!
- chancesarent, on 12/05/2008, -0/+13And you'll notice there are no Valve or Blizzard games on this list. Lets hope the industry follows Valve's lead with Steam. DRM can work if you don't automatically assume your customers are out to rip you off and try to screw them over first. I'll buy your products if i'm able to load them where I want, when I want, how I want.
- Llanowar, on 12/05/2008, -0/+12"When we posted about the impressive download rate on Spore - inflated due to the DRM that was put into the game - EA doubted our statistics. EA’s Mariam Sughayer said that every BitTorrent download was not a successful copy, and that several downloads didn’t work, were buggy, or contained viruses."
I love this part.
Whenever it serves them they'll figure each download as a loss of sale. But now that they want to prove DRM works they take a whole different point of view. - dungbeetle, on 12/05/2008, -0/+12Only the launcher does. Otherwise it's drm free. Which is awesome.
- haydesigner, on 12/05/2008, -0/+12But... if the game sucked, then the demo would let people know that. And then even less people would buy it.
See, it is all the fault of piracy!! - Trifold, on 12/05/2008, -1/+13940,000 people have computers that can run Crysis? *****.
- Fhwqhgads, on 12/05/2008, -4/+15Well in the case of GTA:SA they won't allow us to buy it due to biblethumping ***** permeating society. Nevermind the murder, there's a poorly simulated sex scene! The end of the world is nigh!
- deadnoob, on 12/04/2008, -2/+12San Andreas! A lot of people were catching up before moving on the GTA IV I guess.
- stonebone4, on 12/05/2008, -0/+10What blows my mind is that you can buy it new for ten dollars.
- InTheBurbs, on 12/05/2008, -1/+11If they counted all the expansion packs too it would only take one person to download each and the Sims would be way out in front.
- sideburns, on 12/05/2008, -0/+9Thank you! I can't get to the site from work and was hoping someone was nice enough to post the list.
- GreyICE, on 12/05/2008, -5/+14I guess you're being dugg down because the truth hurts.
- RHCPHan, on 12/05/2008, -0/+8ARRR!!!
- wenomspitta, on 12/05/2008, -1/+9yeah... 1,7 million downloads?
that just about covers Moscow and the near vicinity...
where do they even get these numbers? :D - techdever, on 12/05/2008, -0/+7check out the mods for san andreas... specially the high poly realistic cars and the gfx mods (softshadows, hdri, bumpmapping, etc)
- inactive, on 12/05/2008, -1/+8wasted $120 aud on that *****, I thought i was gonna be one of the nice guys and support the game cause I though it was awesome, turned out, game was *****, and iv only got 1 install left cause of computer updates, fan-*****-tastic! Im gonna bomb ea.
- Godmil, on 12/05/2008, -2/+8It was so bad, yet you still played it to completion?
I wish I had your amount of free time. - dddavid, on 12/05/2008, -2/+8a more helpful reply:
DRM stands for something like Digital Rights Management, but what it means is an attempt at antipiracy/copy protection. But honestly, they never work, and only hurt the honest folk who are kept from say making a copy of a DVD to use in their car or something. - PabloIV, on 12/06/2008, -0/+6Who plays Soccer games on PCs?
- myadron, on 12/05/2008, -2/+8While I haven't yet reached the end, I heartily disagree. The game is awesome.
The only lame thing about the game I see is the level cap. other than that, pretty solid all around. Good graphics (assuming you have a build capable of turning details up), awesome combat (V.A.T.S. makes dull combat awesome - and easy), and fun, in-depth side-quests (Fire Ants, for example). - illdavey, on 12/05/2008, -0/+6Spore was terrible
- DarthPoo, on 12/05/2008, -0/+6Sarcasm is a form of verbal irony.
- TheHayze, on 12/05/2008, -0/+6Don't forget Star Dock. They've been pretty good on the whole no drm thing lately.
- Mackofalltrades, on 12/05/2008, -0/+6http://cristgaming.com/pirate.swf
- vertigo32, on 12/05/2008, -0/+6Hell, the Diablo 2 and Starcraft Battle Chests still go for ~$30...it's kinda irritating - I lost my Brood Wars key and my Diablo 2 CDs are scratched up - I'd probably plunk $9.99 on each just to have the full sets and CD keys.
- Dinomight, on 12/05/2008, -0/+5Yeah the real reason Blizzard doesn't worry about is DRM is WoW. You don't have to worry about drm when they have to connect to your server and you have to pay for an account in order to play the game. If all games required you to play online and relied on data sent to and from your computer regularly, you would eliminate a lot of piracy and therefor wouldn't need DRM. The reality is that Blizzards no DRM policy is a different type of DRM, server authenticated DRM (and they charge you monthly for that privilege.)
- Crucible1001, on 12/05/2008, -0/+5You can play san andreas online. That is why it is so popular. There is a multiplayer mod that supports up to 200 players. There are a few servers usually around 120 players.
- kingsleyadam, on 12/05/2008, -2/+7"it's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife"....no Alanis...that's just ***** luck.
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