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Digital rights management fails to prevent illegal game sales, says digital download firm Good Old Games. Speaking at the 2011 London Games Conference, GoG.com’s MD Guillaume Rambourg said: DRM does not protect your product, I should think it will harm your sales in the long run. DRM does not protect …
Read More »Assassin’s Creed escapes DRM’s clutches
Ubisoft has decided not to bundle its controversial always-on DRM with upcoming release Assassin’s Creed: Revelations. The confirmation was issued to PC gaming blog Rock Paper Shotgun, which goes on to speculate that the decision could indicate a strategic withdrawal from the system. Always-on DRM has become somewhat of a …
Read More »Battlefield 3’s online activation causes headaches
It’s always the risk when a game ships with internet-required DRM. The launch of EA’s Battlefield 3 suffered a setback yesterday when the game’s use of DRM prevented many early adopters playing the title. Before gamers are able to access the title, it must first authenticate itself via EA’s Origin …
Read More »Good Old Games wages war on DRM
Far from protecting the games industry, DRM is actually damaging it according to the MD of download site Good Old Games Guillaume Rambourg. GoG.com offers a number of titles, all of which are completely free of any digital rights management restrictions. To beat piracy, our offer to gamers had to …
Read More »INTERVIEW: Good Old Games
Good old Games is the second most popular digital distributor for PC games. Not bad for a service selling retro and back catalogue titles. MD Guillaume Rambourg spoke to MCV about ditching DRM and reeducating publishers.. For those unfamiliar with it, give us the GOG.com history lesson. GOG is part …
Read More »As long as piracy exists, so will DRM – Jacobson
'I love FM to have no DRM but dishonest people has forced us' Sport Interactive boss says
Read More »Crysis DRM rumours on Xbox 360 are not true
The digital release of Crysis on Xbox 360 has DRM? It’s the end of the world! EA are dead to me! I’m going to kill my cat! Calm down, people. The internet is currently up in arms amidst claims that the digital version of Crysis, which was released on Xbox …
Read More »Valve attacks aggressive DRM
Valve’s Gabe Newell has criticised publishers that implement the likes of ‘always-on’ digital rights management to monetise their games and tackle piracy, claiming they are making a backwards step. "We’re a broken record on this," said the company president of the studio behind Steam, in an interview with Kotaku. "This …
Read More »Valve: Aggressive DRM measures are ‘backwards’
Portal publisher can beat piracy and make more money through quality of service, claims Gabe Newell
Read More »Patch to remove From Dust DRM
You have to wonder why it bothered in the first place. Having once seemingly learnt its lesson regarding the DRM it implements on its PC games, for reasons unbeknown to anyone other than itself Ubisoft decided to re-enter the battleground by including always-on” DRM in recent release From Dust. And …
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