I was browsing tesnexus today for oblivion mods because my new computer is in order and I want to get everything set up. The thing is though, Bethesda really pissed me off this time because the new update about skyrim is that you have to have internet connection to play their game. What the hell ever happened to open source? Not literally, but in a modding world, you know what I mean. Sometimes I like to turn off my router and relax by playing a few videogames offline and save a few bucks on the energy bill. I guess I'll have to rely on .iso and torrents for this game as well. I dont think Bethesda us going to get anymore of my money if they cant even trust their own consumers to buy the game.
Last edited by Daggers on 12 Jun 2024 - 14:14.
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Now hold on a second! My own article? I had nothing to do with the authoring of that article. It is simply an article I discovered a while ago which, I believe, gives a lot of information that people need to hear.Okay, I'm very confused here as to what you are trying to say. I said that at least 80% of the people that acquire a video game do so through piracy. Worldwide piracy rates have absolutely nothing to do with that ratio. The article quotes piracy rates as a portion of all internet traffic. This just highlights how out of control piracy is. And it doesn't surprise me that at least 70% of all piracy is music and movies, since these two represent the two most popular electronic entertainment mediums. Video gaming doesn't even come close to the volume of both money and material that these two move. As another example, video gaming is almost exclusively a "male hobby" whereas music and movies are enjoyed almost equally by both genders. Again, the fact that video gaming represents less than 30% of global piracy has nothing to do with the ratio between legitimate and illegitimate video game customers. With that out of the way, we move on to your question:
From the article I linked to. It's not written plainly in the manner I used though; I had to use mathematics and logical deduction to arrive at those figures.If you had read the article further, you would have found the following:
I think I've made my point.At the end of the day though, the issue is not the accuracy of my figures or exactly how many people are pirating games. The issue is that piracy is so rampant and there are so many people who feel entitled to a video game copy without paying for it that it is impossible for a video game business to simply trust that their customers will do the right thing. If we want them to trust us, we must earn their trust. The most obvious way to do this is to eradicate piracy.
And one more thing. I would recommend that you try limit quoting external sources to small sections that directly target the point you are trying to make, rather than the enormous quotes you made that contained a large amount of information that wasn't relevant to the discussion. Also, I don't think that large body of text you copied from the piracy article qualifies as fair use. That means you've pretty much engaged in copyright infringement by making that post so I seriously recommend you reduce that quote down to the relevant facts.
As I said earlier, I wouldn't trust those disc imaging programs considering that Alcohol 120% and Daemon Tools use rootkits and DT also has security vulnerabilities. In fact, I did a search of Secunia for PowerISO and found that it has/had 1 security vulnerability. I suggest you also scan your PC with TDSSKiller to see if it also uses rootkits. I do have ImDisk installed for disc imaging since it is open source, minimalistic and I haven't found either of the problems I mentined in this program. However, I find that as I buy games through Steam, my disc imaging needs diminish.Also, I've already quoted that pirated and cracked material is statistically the most common method of getting infected. Also, I have read numerous stories which say that using a crack for Oblivion makes the game even more unstable than it already is.
I think this article (by the same person as the piracy article in my first post) provides a good summary of that DRM system and I also kept close tabs on it. Suffice to say, it does not require you to save your games online and it actually took nearly two months to crack the DRM and it took even longer for Silent Hunter 5.Another important point I would like to reiterate from the article I linked to in my first post is that a lot of people seem to fool themselves into believing that DRM must create an imprenetrable fortress to "work". As the article points out though, it's the same as saying that a physical lock must turn a home into an imprenetrable fortress to "work" and that DRM's actual purpose is to stop "day-zero piracy" (where a game gets cracked and released for free before the official release). The mechanisms employed by Steam ensures that the Steam servers are the only place you can get the game's EXE at the time of release which means that day-zero piracy for a Steam game is impossible. At best, hackers can release the crack a few hours after the official release.