gamingbolt.com— Ubisoft's creative director Max Béland has told in an interview that DRM is vital to the developer’s success
Apr 16, 2010View in Crawl 4
How does an ebook not have the same value as a printed book? 2nd hand books are not solely used to prop up tables. In fact, when you sell an ebook the next buyer knows there will be no writing in it, no dog-eared pages, no ripped pages, etc. In fact, I'd say an ebook is worth more at second hand than a printed book because it is perfectly similar to when it was purchased.
"World of warcraft has 1000000000000 private servers...."Only one group has anything resembling working quests, and they all have crappy systems where you get rewards for "donating."
We're forever being told by publishers (Both game and book) that the value in their product is in the IP. If that is the vase then a digital copy should be worth nearly exactly the same as a physical one and we should therefore be able to sell it 2nd hand.
nice excuse on Ubisoft's behalf, I bet that made the Corporate excecs feel a sense of security, too bad DRM is why I haven't touched a PC game in years and the reason I am slowly avoiding downloadable games because of Abhorrent DRM like final fight double impact's, which did give me a double impact, both in preventing me from playing my game on either of my 2 PS3s for 24 hours and always requiring me to be online, which of course they didn't mention internet is required to play in the purchasing info, on the other hand this instills my faith that physical copies will always exist ^0^
Some people, but they were never a profit in the first place. However with me, they gained $20 when they would have gained $0, because the price was reasonable to me.
So how does inflation figure into the fact that the game will be $20 in 3-6 months no matter what? This is a moderately complex question that actually requires some modicum of market knowledge and economic analysis, so I don't expect you to get it.
elliamApr 17, 2010
How does an ebook not have the same value as a printed book? 2nd hand books are not solely used to prop up tables. In fact, when you sell an ebook the next buyer knows there will be no writing in it, no dog-eared pages, no ripped pages, etc. In fact, I'd say an ebook is worth more at second hand than a printed book because it is perfectly similar to when it was purchased.
Closed AccountApr 17, 2010
"World of warcraft has 1000000000000 private servers...."Only one group has anything resembling working quests, and they all have crappy systems where you get rewards for "donating."
noisymimeApr 18, 2010
We're forever being told by publishers (Both game and book) that the value in their product is in the IP. If that is the vase then a digital copy should be worth nearly exactly the same as a physical one and we should therefore be able to sell it 2nd hand.
jayce0Apr 18, 2010
Ubisoft gives games away for free. Can't say the same for valve.All is forgiven.
exaltedbladderApr 18, 2010
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAIt's not even working, dimwits.<a class="user" href="http://www.google.com/search?q=assassin%27s+creed+2+torrent&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;aq=t&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;client=firefox-a" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/search?q=assassin%27s+creed+ ...</a>This is f**kING stupid. Spend the time and effort you use on DRM to improve the game instead.
orochiyagamiApr 18, 2010
nice excuse on Ubisoft's behalf, I bet that made the Corporate excecs feel a sense of security, too bad DRM is why I haven't touched a PC game in years and the reason I am slowly avoiding downloadable games because of Abhorrent DRM like final fight double impact's, which did give me a double impact, both in preventing me from playing my game on either of my 2 PS3s for 24 hours and always requiring me to be online, which of course they didn't mention internet is required to play in the purchasing info, on the other hand this instills my faith that physical copies will always exist ^0^
solkreApr 19, 2010
Some people, but they were never a profit in the first place. However with me, they gained $20 when they would have gained $0, because the price was reasonable to me.
bobartigApr 19, 2010
So how does inflation figure into the fact that the game will be $20 in 3-6 months no matter what? This is a moderately complex question that actually requires some modicum of market knowledge and economic analysis, so I don't expect you to get it.
heavywaveApr 23, 2010
Motherf**ker! I paid $60 :(
heavywaveApr 23, 2010
No they don't.
whitewolffMay 20, 2010
ha ha ha.....very true....