So far the only thing I' ve been able to think of that' d withstand piracy would be giving away the game completely for free. The only catch would be that it' d be ad supported.

I love this idea. Games are way too expensive to begin with. I doubt you can make a high end game fully subsidised with advertising but even if you can subsidise half the game. 50-80$ a game is too much, it' s not worth that. It' s still just media that won' t retain any value. Games should never cost more than 30$. When you lower the price of games people will buy more and more people will buy. I don' t want to watch a comercial but having product placements in games would not bother me at all.

On a related not. Battlefield Heroes is looking pretty good. I' ll be spending a few hours with that game.

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/05/10/ea-backs-down-from-draconian-copy-protection/1

EA backs down after listening to fans. Pussies, no just kidding. Thank god they didn' t go ahead with it. You' ll still get frisked when using patches, DLC and online modes however.

Seems much more sensible than every 10 days though!

See... EA are in touch with gamers. They really listen!

I love EA :)

Lol, you' re such a jew.

I love it when a company listens to their customers. It gives me a warm fuzzy feeling inside.

http://www.bit-tech.net/columns/2008/05/13/picture-perfect-quandary/1

Here' s a brilliant editorial on the whole copy protection vs piracy issue. Really makes sense and puts things into perspective. Interesting read.

Oh and sry Unlucky I just realised you' d posted ealier about them backing down. No harm in giving them double credit for it though heh.