Comments on: Alone in the Dark to Include SecuROM http://www.ripten.com/2008/06/21/alone-in-the-dark-to-include-securom/ All Your Geek Are Belong To Us Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:35:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Krispy Demon http://www.ripten.com/2008/06/21/alone-in-the-dark-to-include-securom/#comment-34693 Krispy Demon Sun, 22 Jun 2008 13:01:15 +0000 http://www.ripten.com/?p=5048#comment-34693 The reason PC gaming is failing is because PC developers are complete fucktards and only getting worse every day. I think more people download illegal music or movies that bother with the complicated adventure of not only downloading a game, but finding ways to get no cd/dvd hacks or mini-images on top of that. Then there is the fact that to get a pirated copy of a game takes significantly more time to download... I mean, we're talking several gigs of data here that may take anywhere from several days to several weeks to download depending on various aspects of the vagaries of interwebial dynamics. This kind of bullshit is the reason PC gaming is failing. Why would I get AITD on the PC when it means this kind of nonsensicle hubaloo when I can just get it on a console and not get treated like a god damned theif? Not that it makes a god damned difference anyway, the shit will be available on various torrent sites within a month with a crack to defeat shituROM anyway, so the money that ATARI is paying is only, MAYBE, going to slow down piracy a small bit. Eh, I could bitch about this for hours, but I have other things to complain about that are far higher on my list of gripes. By the way Chad, most people that hack encryption for games and the like never charge any money or anything, at least not that I've ever seen. Not that I've ever been involved in that sort of illicit behavior. The reason PC gaming is failing is because PC developers are complete fucktards and only getting worse every day. I think more people download illegal music or movies that bother with the complicated adventure of not only downloading a game, but finding ways to get no cd/dvd hacks or mini-images on top of that. Then there is the fact that to get a pirated copy of a game takes significantly more time to download… I mean, we’re talking several gigs of data here that may take anywhere from several days to several weeks to download depending on various aspects of the vagaries of interwebial dynamics. This kind of bullshit is the reason PC gaming is failing. Why would I get AITD on the PC when it means this kind of nonsensicle hubaloo when I can just get it on a console and not get treated like a god damned theif? Not that it makes a god damned difference anyway, the shit will be available on various torrent sites within a month with a crack to defeat shituROM anyway, so the money that ATARI is paying is only, MAYBE, going to slow down piracy a small bit. Eh, I could bitch about this for hours, but I have other things to complain about that are far higher on my list of gripes.

By the way Chad, most people that hack encryption for games and the like never charge any money or anything, at least not that I’ve ever seen. Not that I’ve ever been involved in that sort of illicit behavior.

]]> By: DavidGX http://www.ripten.com/2008/06/21/alone-in-the-dark-to-include-securom/#comment-34687 DavidGX Sun, 22 Jun 2008 10:46:33 +0000 http://www.ripten.com/?p=5048#comment-34687 Tacos rule. Tacos rule.

]]> By: Dan Landis http://www.ripten.com/2008/06/21/alone-in-the-dark-to-include-securom/#comment-34684 Dan Landis Sun, 22 Jun 2008 10:02:38 +0000 http://www.ripten.com/?p=5048#comment-34684 I tell you what they'd do, Chad. They get real jobs doing something respectable like flying planes or constructing tacos. I tell you what they’d do, Chad. They get real jobs doing something respectable like flying planes or constructing tacos.

]]> By: DavidGX http://www.ripten.com/2008/06/21/alone-in-the-dark-to-include-securom/#comment-34677 DavidGX Sun, 22 Jun 2008 07:04:01 +0000 http://www.ripten.com/?p=5048#comment-34677 PC gaming: Failing more every single day. PC gaming: Failing more every single day.

]]> By: Chad Lakkis http://www.ripten.com/2008/06/21/alone-in-the-dark-to-include-securom/#comment-34671 Chad Lakkis Sun, 22 Jun 2008 05:21:38 +0000 http://www.ripten.com/?p=5048#comment-34671 Interesting Dan, but then what would the guys that code the encryption software do for extra cash? If there is no encryption, then they can't find ways to break into it and thereby generate extra income. Interesting Dan, but then what would the guys that code the encryption software do for extra cash? If there is no encryption, then they can’t find ways to break into it and thereby generate extra income.

]]> By: Dan Landis http://www.ripten.com/2008/06/21/alone-in-the-dark-to-include-securom/#comment-34669 Dan Landis Sun, 22 Jun 2008 04:56:03 +0000 http://www.ripten.com/?p=5048#comment-34669 I don't get it. Why do companies keep wasting their money like this? A vast majority of PC gamers don't pirate software, and the ones that do will find a way to copy games regardless. The open nature of PC's makes them the hardware of choice for hackers and pirates. The only way to avoid it is to just not make games on PC, and that's not going to happen. Just suck it up and take the hit, and stop wasting money on copy protection that never works. I don’t get it. Why do companies keep wasting their money like this? A vast majority of PC gamers don’t pirate software, and the ones that do will find a way to copy games regardless. The open nature of PC’s makes them the hardware of choice for hackers and pirates. The only way to avoid it is to just not make games on PC, and that’s not going to happen. Just suck it up and take the hit, and stop wasting money on copy protection that never works.

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