It's coming

[Raapys]

It was only a matter of time, I guess. Though I'm not exactly sure how it's going to help against piracy, as seems to be this guy's intent.

http://www.destructoid.com/codemasters- ... 9028.phtml

The video games industry has to learn to operate in a different way. My answer is for us as publishers is to actually sell unfinished games - and to offer the consumer multiple micro-payments to buy elements of the full experience.

 

[Micmu]

He can go fuck himself.

 

[hoverdog]

jesus fuck.

 

[PlanHex]

Oh yes, pirates will never be able to circumvent this! It's too brilliant!
Give this man a Nobel Peace Prize for finally dealing the death blow to piracy everywhere.

Or maybe the Nobel Prize in literature for the greatest piece of fiction ever.

 

[Phelot]

My god!

And why not? It worked for Shareware back in the day, except you generally didn't have to buy boxed product.

Exactly, so it's not the same so shut the fuck up. They're apparently asking people to blindly pay money for something without trying it out and in order to get "the full experience" you'd have to dish out even more money.

Shareware didn't do this. In Doom you got the whole experience for free. IF you wanted more then you pay for it. PRetty simple and pretty successful.

I honestly don't know what idea I like worse, having my full games be hurt by intrusive and sometimes crippling DRM systems or paying money for what could be considered a very extensive demo. As long as they're willing to drop the retail prices to correspond with the reduced quantity of content, I'm on board.

And he must know they won't. He must see what they're planning here! I'll assume they aren't going to offer demos so basically you need to blindly buy a game that isn't finished and then buy DLC to complete it. How else would it work? Would I be able to finish the game without buying more of it?

 

[Quilty]

Just go back to making those old-skool manual-checks, it's equally ineffective but at least that way we get a manual and maybe feel like the last ten years didn't happen.

 

[Metro]

No different than what they are doing with a lot of DLC.

 

[Hoaxmetal]

It's coming

DLCs, it's already here, yeah.

Anyway, I don't see any logic in this. People will pirate unfinished product and the addons, what's up with his greedy jewish logic?

I can't remember a single post or article about these anti-piracy things where someone says "that's fine, I'm buying it now." All I've seen is potential buyer saying "fuck this."

They just have got to stop annoying actual buyers.

 

[Raapys]

Well, it is different. With this we might actually be getting the whole 'Pay 5$ for save/load feature' or 'Pay 10$ to get the second part of the main-quest'. Most of the current DLC is just stupid addon stuff which doesn't really have any significance on the game or gameplay( i.e. horse armor), while this seems more of a case of leaving out essential features of the game.

Then again, maybe this means we can leave out Bloom and save 20$.