Interview: PCGA president Randy Stude

By Wesley Yin-Poole - 20/10/2008 - 8:02am GMT

On piracy, Spore DRM and why PC games are better than console games.

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Posted at 12:01 on 21 October 2008
zehaeva	0 0 In response to Article » Go to 's original post @matt I think the DRM he was speaking of in production was more like actual physical barriers to keep the actual physical copies together and no leaked like say the 360 version of Fallout 3 that's been available for a while now. Lock down the production center, hire only people with clean backgrounds, get rid of any internet you have there and post guards at every exit. make sure that you can trust UPS or FedEX or whom ever. Make sure it doesn't get to stores until the night before release. Catch the leaks before they get out. It's not DRM persay, its smart business practices imo. Reply

Posted at 13:45 on 21 October 2008
Adam	0 0 In response to Article » Go to 's original post Comes across as something of a "PC apologist" to me. I work all day on a PC (software development) but it's days as my gaming platform of choice are long gone. His statement about 100 million PC sold with better capabilities than an XBox360 is dubious. Better in what way? More memory? More HD space? Better graphics card? "Better than XBox360" is a very nebulous statement. If I defined better as "The ability to put in a game and play it without the need to arse about" then 0 PC solds meet that spec. Thing is, PCs are designed as general purpose machines. Arsing about is a given. That's all well and good when I doing development work and arsing about IS work, but when it comes to gaming (Which I consider a form of relaxation) any amount of arsing about is detracting from my experience. Unsurprisingly enough, my platforms of choice for relaxtion at the moment conist of books, a few watchable TV series and, most important of all, a Nintendo DS (Amazingly useful for relaxing where you want, when you want) Anyway, that's my opinion. Reply

Posted at 13:45 on 21 October 2008
SteamWontSaveY	0 0 In response to Article » Go to 's original post Steam does NOT take away the activation limits of EA games!! Steam will allow you to reinstall Valve games unlimited times, sure. If you buy Crysis on Steam you still get 5 activations. Some people seem to be confused about that. I got rid of all my PC games, switched to Linux, and got a 360. I dont want to wonder whether the game I'm buying will let me play it in 5 years. Too much BS to worry about when I'm trying to have fun. Reply

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