Don't Worry About Copy Write Protection!

Atrocities · #1 March 16th, 2006, 04:31 AM

According to Brad Wardell of Stardock (GalCiv developer), copy write protection is not needed because the PC gaming industry is "doomed."

Quote:

GS: Why did Stardock opt not to use traditional industry-accepted forms of copy protection?

BW: It's only industry-accepted in the PC game industry--the industry that people are regularly saying is "doomed." Most of our business is in the application software market (the market that no one argues is "doomed"), and such copy protection measures are not used. I don't have to keep my Adobe Photoshop CD in the drive to use it.

Man I really don't know what to say other than WOW.

narf poit chez BOOM · #2 March 16th, 2006, 05:49 AM

Uh, I think he's saying that the reason doom is predicted for the pc game industry is because it uses copy protection.

And I'd have to agree that that is a doom-type thing.

Daynarr · #3 March 16th, 2006, 06:50 AM

You are wrong on this one Atro.

Another one of his posts

Atrocities · #4 March 16th, 2006, 06:52 AM

I would hope that I am wrong. Being right is way to extreme for me to be dealing with at the moment.

Slick · #5 March 16th, 2006, 01:34 PM

Yup. The computer game industry has been doomed since the late 1970's if memory serves. I bet it has been doomed longer than the author of that quote has been alive. No reason to think it will get undoomed any time soon.

bearclaw · #6 March 16th, 2006, 02:01 PM

The last console system that I've ever owned was an Atari 2600. Ever since then, I've only played PC games.

As far as I can tell, it's the console industry that's doomed.

Guess it all depends on a certain point of view. Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly upon our own point of view.

Renegade 13 · #7 March 16th, 2006, 03:31 PM

The only console I've ever owned (and it was actually my parents...) was an original Nintendo system. Still have it actually

If I was the only customer, it'd be the shallow console games that were "doomed".

As long as there's even a small market for something, there will be suppliers. For the forseeable future, there'll continue being thousands of computer gamers, thus the industry is far from "doomed".

I see the end of dedicated computer gaming once the computer, TV, stereo, satellite system are all integrated into one unit. Then again, that'd spell the death of dedicated console gaming too!

Suicide Junkie · #8 March 16th, 2006, 04:09 PM

Sounds like the Voltron of wallet-leeching electronics.

geoschmo · #9 March 16th, 2006, 04:16 PM

We are all doomed. Every product I own will be broken in ten years. Every company I do business with with be gone in 50. Every one of their entire industries will be gone and replaced by something else in 100.

By don't worry, you and I and everybody else we know will be dead by then, so it doesn't really matter.

I don't even know why I bother writing this. No-one will remember reading it in a month, and no-one will even remember humanity exsisted in a million years.

narf poit chez BOOM · #10 March 16th, 2006, 04:34 PM

Humanity has a lot of illogical behavior that cannot be attributed to evolution - But that's OT.