What Sort of DRM protection would you accept?

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by Dowly

No DRM.

Because for the billionth time: there's no stopping the pirates. <-period. (<-wow, another one )

You never know, they said the same thing about going to the moon, can't be done.

[Nicolas]

I have buyed rFactor, superb racing sim, it has a online 'activate once' way with 5 oportunities, and this game is multiplayer, but wait, you can contact them and if you ask them for more activations they will give more to you without any charge. And theyre customer support is great.

I will be honest, lot of people play games copies and they are no thieves, i say this, because if you have a decent pc, but not enough money, it happens you know, sum up Windows + some other app + 5 games, you almost buy a new pc with that!, ok it is not excuse, what im saying is that some people money priorities are other than games, and if they copy it's not because of stealing, it's because if they want to pay for a game it will hurt theyre wallet, they just will not buy the game, probably they will forever grateful for those hours of entertaiment. You can think of rich people only have good pc and internet, (and the right to play)? not true. They can't spend on all the games. Here in Uruguay for example, commercial programs piracy is not allowed and the goberment will close your businnes or have to pay a 'fee', but in your home... Yes i know i'm not supposed to say this but the subsim forum are members from a lot of places, including 'third world' (term i hate but ok).

[Steeltrap]

I selected 'other'.

Possibly a shame there isn't a "make available via Steam" as it's probably the most widely used system. It also has the advantage of not needing a different account for each publisher.

[artao]

Single online activation with a CD-key, perhaps with an occasional re-check but not even monthly. Like how Win XP (and later?) does it. It's irritated me a few times, like when I changed hardware too much, without 'net access, and had to phone them to get re-activated, but I was able to do so. Just about the only thing I WON'T put up with is being required to be constantly connected to play a single-player game. BOOOO!!!

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

You never know, they said the same thing about going to the moon, can't be done.

i think their biggest problem is i think they are looking in the wrong direction.

it seams that you need to stop all this log in, check in, monitoring BS and simply have a disk drive format that is unreadable or encrypted and cant be opened or looked at by any burners so even if someone wants to copy it they cant.

if they made burners able to read a certain formatted disk but as an industry wide standard all burners cant open/explore or rewrite anything in that format then thats the ticket.

it seams the most logical aproach and all pirated disks (not just games) would be able to use the protected format.

might take a little coopperation but its in the best intrest of all software makers so they have the infuence to do it.

yes someone will be able to crack the opening part of the protection but it would only have limited use since they cant burn it to a disk so piracy is limited to first having the actual game disk in your hand and isnt that the key? if you had to buy the disk to try to pirate then why would you still need to pirate it?

[Platapus]

Ubi could make authentication a fun part of the game.

Enigma

Registered users would download once per month a list of that month's Enigma settings.

Prior to every patrol, the player would access either an ingame or independent Enigma simulator (of which there are several online)

Using the codes downloaded, the player sends Ubi a password or some other piece of information.

Once the message has been acknowledged, The player/Kaluen is authorized by Ubi/BDU to start the patrol. The player will then exercise the appropriate "radio silence" i.e. disconnect from the server.

Ubi gets authentication that would be hard to hack

Players get immersion into the coding and decoding that was part of the U-boat experience.

If we have to have authentication, make it fun and part of the game experience.

[KL-alfman]

yeah!
sounds great fun.

[Letum]

...until ubi stops bothering.