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Games and more importantly drm will always get cracked, some publishers underestimate the warez scene. I remember when the 'unbreakable' securom first broke onto the scene, that lasted, what, 3 weeks? And in the end it basically screwed over legit owners as securom is a complete nightmare.

Giving pirates a reason to purchase a game rather then steal it is the way forward, valve realised this fairly early on. Give the customer their moneys worth and offer good support in the process.

I'm glad to say the pc game pirate scene has been dying a slow death for some years now, the majority want hassle free gaming. We can thank the likes of valve and cdpr for this.
 
Games for Windows Live was an absolute joke when it came to running games. A nightmare to get started and I remember trying to get Dirt 3 installed and up and running and it resulted in me wishing I had got a pirate copy of the game, as after an hour, I still couldn't get connected and it wouldn't let me play without connecting. What a joke.
 
pgi947 said:
Games and more importantly drm will always get cracked, some publishers underestimate the warez scene. I remember when the 'unbreakable' securom first broke onto the scene, that lasted, what, 3 weeks? And in the end it basically screwed over legit owners as securom is a complete nightmare.

Giving pirates a reason to purchase a game rather then steal it is the way forward, valve realised this fairly early on. Give the customer their moneys worth and offer good support in the process.

I'm glad to say the pc game pirate scene has been dying a slow death for some years now, the majority want hassle free gaming. We can thank the likes of valve and cdpr for this.
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Securom was a walk in the park compared to StarForce, or how it became to be known 'Star ****' :p

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarForce

used to ask direct access to the IDE channels and in some cases locked peoples machines up.

Russian military grade baloney
 
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Ahh starforce, I had forgotton about that cluster **** of a drm. I actually remember having to use deamon tools with a legit game to get that crud to function.

Gfwl was a comedy of errors from the off. Legit users would get stuck in a constant (and I mean constant!!) Update loop while all pirates had to do was generate a profile and disable their Ethernet port to by pass it, as it would force gfwl into a 'safe' offline mode.

Of course though none of this matters from ubisofts point of view, we're all dirty pirates who don't deserve anything but to be ignored by developers.
 
pgi947 said:
Ahh starforce, I had forgotton about that cluster **** of a drm. I actually remember having to use deamon tools with a legit game to get that crud to function.

Gfwl was a comedy of errors from the off. Legit users would get stuck in a constant (and I mean constant!!) Update loop while all pirates had to do was generate a profile and disable their Ethernet port to by pass it, as it would force gfwl into a 'safe' offline mode.

Of course though none of this matters from ubisofts point of view, we're all dirty pirates who don't deserve anything but to be ignored by developers.
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CD Projekt Red released a handful of new Witcher 3 screens last week, which you can see for yourself in this post. Not everyone was entirely thrilled with them, however. Some fans said in a NeoGAF thread that they really don't look as good as we've come to expect, a concern that only deepened when an "insider" claimed that the studio's PR team is "creating an overblown vision of a game that doesn't exist."
The insider, as noted by Lazygamer, was "vetted and cleared" by a NeoGAF admin, and the image of Geralt squaring off against a bunch of wolves is far from awful but it does look a little flat. But CD Projekt Community Manager Marcin Momot tried to allay any fears by reminding everyone that the game is still in development.
"Please keep in mind that the game is still in production phase. Certain things are still being worked on," Momot told Worldsfactory. "The final version of the game will look better than what can be seen in the latest screenshots – no matter the platform. As you probably know, when publishing screenshots, some of them can be subjectively less appealing than others (depending on one’s opinion), that’s perfectly normal. The most important thing here is that the game will come out looking gorgeous when we are done working on it. There will be no downgrade."

CD Projekt wouldn't be the first studio to make promises about the visual fidelity of its game that it ultimately couldn't keep, but Momot's statement is unequivocal. And this most recent batch of screens notwithstanding, everything to come out of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt has looked pretty spectacular so far.
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http://www.pcgamer.com/cd-projekt-promises-no-visual-downgrade-for-the-witcher-3-wild-hunt/

I have faith in CDPR :D
 
I am amazed that in 2014 people still believe in bullshots. Literally every pic these days is a staged/posed "target render" touched up in photoshop.

I think the games industry is headed for a big crunch when a new Halo/CoD has the kind of scandal that Aliens:CM had, there'll be legislation or a new regulatory body or something.
 
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Orangey said:
I am amazed that in 2014 people still believe in bullshots. Literally every pic these days is a staged/posed "target render" touched up in photoshop.

I think the games industry is headed for a big crunch when a new Halo/CoD has the kind of scandal that Aliens:CM had, there'll be legislation or a new regulatory body or something.
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I remember going to WHSmiths or Woolworths and picking up a huge box for my Amiga games and looking at the pictures and thinking "Wow" and then being massively disappointed when the game started up :D

The problem is the same still, there will always be an element of art added to sell and maybe not even touched up pics but you can be sure they are taking the best pics possible and working from there. Watchdogs was naughty though and the video released wasn't a patch on the game, although apparently there were fixes to get the game to run like the original video. I have played the Witcher 2 and those visuals were good enough for me to grab the Witcher 3, regardless of any PR.
 
To be honest after having played The vanishing of Ethan Carter, The Witcher 3 doesn't impress me like it used to (on a technical stand point I get that they should't be compared, but nonetheless).
 
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