UbiSoft servers down today = No single player gaming
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you can pretty much install the whole disc on the 360's hard drive but you still need the disc to prove you have the game.....otherwise people could easily just rent games and leave them on their hard drives for as long as they like.
would certainly be cheaper than buying the games....order a few 120gb hdd's for 35 quid from the bay and store about 15 games each on them.
Correct. Needing the disc is not drm since i can do whatever i want as many times as i want, can also use it offline and sell it without the buyer having to worry whether it's been installed too many times or whatever.
It restricts access to the game - you cant play it on more than one xbox at the same time so it is DRM.
You also cant copy the disk and play it on another unmodded Xbox so again its DRM.
By law you can't do this with the pc either.
Yes but as long as you're not doing anything illegal, it's completely transparent DRM, which is kind of the whole point. I don't give a damn what they implement as long as it's completely transparent to me.
Putting the disk in is hardly a major barrier as far as I'm concerned.
I must say that I feel sorry for the buyers (renters?) of these games while at the same time I'm quite amused.
But then again, I didn't buy either game because of the DRM.
Interestingly enough, the shops I've been to can't seem to shift those games, they're piled high and stay that way. That big warning sticker don't help none, either.
It's just like being a small kid and getting a good toy for Christmas without the batteries, and all the shops are shut.
But then again, I didn't buy either game because of the DRM.
Interestingly enough, the shops I've been to can't seem to shift those games, they're piled high and stay that way. That big warning sticker don't help none, either.
It's just like being a small kid and getting a good toy for Christmas without the batteries, and all the shops are shut.
Normal thing that happens in my family is that someone buys the wrong size batterys for the toys on christmas day....
Who cares about that? It's possible whether they want it or not.
Except I bought Bad Company 2, installed it, had to sign up for something, worked for 5 minutes (single player looked poor), tried multiplayer, cannot log in, my register code is already in use! Tried many times, no joy, EA FAIL. 24 hours for reply from support. No EA are still EA.
The way he worded it I got the impression he was saying it's legal and incentive to having a PC, yes it's an incentive but still isn't legal, and in a thread all about DRM the law is rather important.
Hahaha, important, I'm willing to bet 75% of the posters have broken or regularly break copyright laws...
Regardless what the law is, with 1 copy of say age of empires 2, you can set up a lan game with 8 computers in your own home since it only checks for the cd at launch and then for the host at the start of the game, on an xbox you would need 8 copies...
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Since you're using blatant piracy in your example you would just need to burn the xbox disk 8 times...
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Amazing lack of foresight on behalf of Ubisoft there.
And flash 8 dvd drives on xbox's, and having each player having a 2nd xbox for being able to play online
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