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Originally Posted by Bond
What's the official Nintendo word on this policy? "Too technologically and logistically difficult to implement?"  |
Gross Incompetence
Sheer Ignorance
or just clinging to tradition for the sake of it. Choose one.
Just these days Sony, EA and Nintendo actually gave the green light to the Stop Online Piracy Act, which shows how much of a control freak these companies are. Also, Sony lowered the amount of consoles that can share games from five to two. I had forgotten but my friend just happened to remind me about it a few minutes ago during chat. The funny thing is, these oppressive DRMs harm them more than they can help them.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/vide...do-EA-and-SOPA
Gabe Newell actually has a good view on the subject saying this is all a thing of the quality of the service but I still believe some people will just pirate anything they can for the sake of not paying anything. I have a friend who pirates all of his iPhone apps. There's no excuse for not wanting to pay $5 for Infinty Blade. So while this alleviates the problem, it doesn't get rid of it.
http://games.ign.com/articles/121/1213357p1.html
Ubisoft is another company that's been using the worse kind of DRMs on their games on PC. We can talk about this for a long, long time and not finish.