Spiegato il DRM di Dragon Age II

Dove?

PC Gamer: Do you have a good sense of piracy rates with Steam games?

Gabe Newell: They’re low enough that we don’t really spend any time [on it]. When you look at the things we sit around and talk about, as big picture cross game issues, we’re way more concerned about the stability of DirectX drivers or, you know, the erroneous banning of people. That’s way more of an issue for us than piracy.

Once you create service value for customers, ongoing service value, piracy seems to disappear, right? It’s like “Oh, you’re still doing something for me? I don’t mind the fact that I paid for this.” Once you actually localise your product in Russia and ship it on the same day that you ship your English language versions, this theoretical hotbed of piracy becomes your second largest- third largest after Germany in continental Europe? Or third after UK?

Erik Johnson: In terms of retail units?

Gabe Newell: In terms of sales of our products, yeah. Overall, Steam plus retail.

Erik Johnson: Probably second. It’s a big number.

Gabe Newell: The point is that there’s this market that you shouldn’t waste your time on, that went from, “You shouldn’t waste our time on it, they’ll just pirate it,” to “it’s actually a really large market for us now,” once you actually do the things that allow your product to be played. And that’s why some of the DRM approaches are so bad, because they create negative value, not positive value.

I’ve had this problem with software, where my machine crashes and I wasn’t able to release my license. So I have high-end CAD software that I have for hobbies, and my machine crashes and now I’m screwed because of their DRM solution. And that’s bad because it’s much harder to justify purchasing software that might just magically disappear and create a huge hassle for you to recover. What you want to do is go the other way, and say, “Anywhere in the world, any time, you can get your software.” It’s even better if you can get it to run on more platforms, which is why Steam Play is cool, so I can buy it on a Mac and play it on a PC and vice versa. That’s a good thing, that moves customers in the direction of thinking, “Oh, my content is more valuable.”

Erik Johnson: There hasn’t been a case where we’re making a trade off that could negatively impact a customer’s experience to reduce this theoretical piracy rate. Those always seem like awful decisions.

Gabe Newell: You were just saying, you’re making this trade off, and it’s always the wrong one if any customers can be affected negatively by it.

Erik Johnson: Being able to log into any computer and play our games on Steam was a feature that we thought was interesting in the early days of Steam, but has turned out to be an incredibly high value thing for customers, and that’s the kind of thing where a flawed anti piracy strategy would be at odds with that.

Doug Lombardi: The other thing, too, is that gamers are generally good people. If you’re making a good game and you’ve done a good job both from a quality and on the communications standpoint, they’re more than happy to give you their money. I mean, we get mail all the time. Gabe gets more mail I think directly from customers but EJ and I get a fair amount. And like, after we ship something that’s good, we get mail saying, “I just went out and bought a second copy of it, just because I liked it so much I wanted to pay you guys again.” Or, “I went and bought it from my uncle or brother,” or whatever. So that’s my take on a lot of it, just do your job and people are more than happy to pay for it.

Gabe Newell: The other thing that’s always funny is how unbelievably smart the gaming community is, and how accurate. You see other people just lying or making up stuff, and it’s like, “Oh my God, no. Don’t go there.”

Ma qual'è il problema in un DRM che non chiede il cd e ti chiede una autenticazione on line una tantum?
O siete impazziti o fino ad adesso avete giocato solo alle console.
Non so ma a me non sembra molto diverso da quello di steam

L'ultimo gioco con manuale decente che ho visto è stato Imperium - GBR: titolo distribuito nelle edicole da [B][U]FX[/U][/B], pagato 19€e con OTTANTA pagine di manuale A COLORI, mappa e libretto con i consigli strategici. 19€ e mi porto a casa un gioco "di serie b" ma divertente e curato e con una confezione corposa, 50€ per black ops e ti porti a casa una confezione di plastica nera con tre pagine di cui: una pagina di guida all'installazione (ci arriva anche un criceto a mettere il dvd nel lettore e premere ok, ok, ok, accetto, fine), una pagina di mappatura dei tasti, una pagina di credits/copyrights.

Trovo assurda, ridicola e masochista l'idea di imbottire un gioco di protezioni che sistematicamente cedono in un arco di tempo massimo finora di un paio di mesi,

intanto non sono riusciti ad oggi a fregare il drm di hawx 2...

solo perchè non hanno voglia/tempo....se cerchi in internet un gruppo diciamo "famoso" dicono che non lo crakkano perchè sono impegnati in altre cose...

Invece se il DRM regge un paio di mesi ha assolto il suo scopo.

Il principale problema è la pirateria prima o in concomitanza al lancio

Qui:

http://www.pcgamer.com/2010/09/15/w...-episode-three/

La Valve non mi piace molto (per via del fanboyismo di molti utenti che la adorano), ma Newell ha davvero capito come far funzionare le cose, fregandosene allegramente della pirateria.

sto cercando un gioco su steam da comprare per premiare zio gabe dopo questa affascinante lettura XD

tornando IT, a parte le solite (giuste) discussioni sui prezzi troppo alti e i troppi fastidi dati dalle inutili protezioni, devo dire che come DRM non è malaccio, anche se devo capire che senso ha fare l'attivazione ritardata e non all'installazione