/v/ - Video Games

>>14468845

Wasn't this added for pirates from the start?

this is old af

>>14468851

Yes, but now legit buyers have the option to enable it.

>>14468874

Looks like pirates won again.

>>14468870

>missing the joke

DRM makes is harder to be successful in the game, that's why it's called hard mode.

>>14468895

That’s why Game Dev Story is better than this copycat trash

Do you think that gamedevs actually realize how useless their DRM is when it comes to stopping piracy?

You'd think they would have wisened up by now.

Maybe they just lazily slap DRM on nowdays without the intent to actually prevent piracy. Maybe they just don't want to send the wrong signal

>>14468895

There was quite a backlash when L4D2 was released a year after IRIC

>>14468923

>Do you think that gamedevs actually realize how useless their DRM is when it comes to stopping piracy?

Developers themselves don't care about DRM most of the time. In some cases they don't want any. Its usually forced on by publishers.

>>14468920

I wish Game Dev Story would get a good PC version, as far as I remember the only new version of it is the phone app port.

>>14468939

Sauce on the theme song?

>>14468942

Most of that came from the fact the game wasn't even out in some countries yet and the sequel was already on its way.

>>14468845

Where is the ultra casual mode where you bribe journos (or get into bed with them) for positive reviews?

>>14468955

croteam are so innovative, first they invent retro shooters next they invent drm that does things in game

>>14468981

>pirates have to wait months

Unless we're talking Denuvo (and even that gets cracked within the week nowadays), there's usually a crack out the same day the game's released.

>>14469029

It took five months to crack spyro 3, a psone game.

All the while pirates had to deal with no gems, no eggs, or game overwriting your savefile at the very end while buyfags just played the game.

>>14469033

Wait, how can a PS1 game "think" it is being pirated?

>>14468947

>oy vey you fucking consumers why can't you just accept that we need to shackle you to DRM you're LITERALLY KILLING US GOYIM YOU KNOW THAT

>>14468845

Does it mean nobody buys your game and in the end Russian Hackers still end up pirating your game?

>>14469037

It had an anti piracy system built in the game that even attempting to do anything with hacking tools would trigger it, causing the game to do all sorts of random, game breaking stuff.

>>14469051

I recall some games detecting mod chips but never anything that basically gave false positives on a legit console.

>>14468982

Madoka Magica's Op.

>>14468923

Long term it's pretty useless, but it's not meant for a long term solution because usually that ends up being DRM that causes more problems than it solves (Denuvo, Starforce). The basic goal is to prevent anyone from playing the game for free for the first two weeks its officially released since that's when the most sales are. Although with paid beta testing Early Access and things like that, I have to wonder if there's even a point to that going forward. Seems destined for the same trash heap that gold disks and major-bug free titles on release were dumped.

>>14468923

Devs totally do. They have to put up with it to do their job actually.

Publishers push it for a variety of reasons, among which arguing with investors, something like "see, we care about your shekels, we even bought this totally awesome revolutionary anti-piracy technology which works perfectly by the way".

It's also a way to ensure games have following : even shit games nobody cares about have achievements, community support, forums, messaging, and cash shops. Kids grow up with it, and vidya, or any media really, without it will be deserted by them long term. This is what they mean when they claim drm is "added value".

>>14469066

powerful philosophy…..wow…

kill yourself you dumb faggot

>>14469127

>gate keeping cancerous moe shit chink cartoons

you remind me of my years of being young and idiot

>>14468845

Even they admit drm is shit so, good I guess

>>14469192

>actually wanting a horde of retards into your niche hobby

You're so mature and adult you must be right

I dimly recall there being something rancid about the team behind Game Dev Tycoon, but since I never intended to play it, I just saved it as a mental bookmark. I normally only do that for groups that are far left, pedophiles, or other cancers of society.

>>14469192

wow its like you've been here for less than a year, look at that

>>14469239

they ripped off Game Dev Story wholesale

>it's piracy's fault vidya is shit goy

>piracy forces publishers to mandate their games have inane shit no consumer cares about

>piracy forces developers to be incompetent hacks who time and time again lie and deceive their audience to appeal to a broader audience who'll move on to the next FOTM once it comes out

>piracy forces we milk you dry with 60$ game +3 10$ DLC's + the 79.99$ Good Goy Edition + 5$ Microtransactions so you can not play the game we purposely designed to be tedious/overly time consuming/punishing if you don't buy it

<Oy vey inflation

>It's piracy's fault our developers are ideology driven robots who have no qualms about it or have anything against alienating portions of their audience just so they can stick it to the patriarchy

>It's piracy's fault the same minded robots collude with one another and suposed gaming outlets to force a narrative down the consumers throat

I could go on and on goy,as you can see,clearly Piracy is the source of all these evils,not a symptom.

>>14468845

>game gets pirated

>lose money

really makes you think

maybe if I get a super fast connection I can torrent games so many times that each company goes out of business

>>14469037

It tries to read to unavailable space on the disc.

Incidentally this could fuck up and scratched discs could think they're pirated.

Also Spyro 3 was copied in less than 4 weeks you just had to order the right capacity CDs

>>14468874

>>14468882

Thanks for beta testing, pirates.

Also does this version include the malware that attempts to get your private information because the developers are retarded and forgot doxxing is illegal?

>>14469289

Reminds me of Valyrie Profile, its file system made it unplayable with the smallest scratch.

>>14469299

Good, fuck the pirates!

>>14468895

>slap together some random shit

>RNGesus decides it's the best fucking game ever

>make a fucktillion dollars

>make your next game

>RNGesus decides it's fucking awful, despite you doing everything right

>it sells like shit

>this happens for the next 10 games you make

>then you hit the jackpot again and repeat the whole process

This was supposedly their way of making some kind of commentary about the games industry. In reality, it's just frustrating to play and becomes boring after less than an hour. They wanted to make a game that you could do well in by going about things in the most tedious way possible, but they also loaded the game up with bullshit restrictions and events that force you to constantly burn money, because this little band of faggot indie developers apparently believes that they have a deep and fully nuanced understanding of the whole industry and that their perspective on matters is correct because they read some blogs about game dev horror stories.

Game dev tycoon is basically just a rip off of this, but with more soapboxing.

>>14469434

How more people aren't aware of this astounds me. I had the original game on my phone for years before this new game came out and somehow became more popular.

>>14469448

I think people just assumed it was shovelware and ignored it, the publisher was shitting out TONS of those story games by the time Indie bitching tycoon came out.

>>14468895

The mechanics also undermine its point with piracy since as long as your studio isn't full of retards and the games you make are liked the supposed loss from piracy is negligible and barely matters probably the only realistic thing in the game tbh.

>>14468942

A lot was to do with the mod tools not being made available until well after release. From what I remember, the full tool kit wasn't released until after L4D2 was released. The forums were also quite active and it had a lot of people making suggestions to make the game less shitty (the stamina bar for melee right clicking, Charger, Spitter, Jockey and shit loads of stuff actually came from the forums as suggestions).

So instead of updating the game, they took all the refinements and additions and put most of it in L4D2 with L4D getting some updates later on down the line. Since the majority of "servers" only had the base 4 campaigns for the longest time, people were pissed that Valve (who weren't fully outed as being full Jew at the time, aside from monetizing mod projects and Steam) was charging for its first "yearly" franchise.

I mean, this was Valve releasing a sequel in a year. That shit's practically unheard of.

>>14469680

Is that sum bailey jay I see?

If pro-DRM fags were doctors, they'd cure the common cold by infecting people with HIV.

>>14468981

>pirates have to wait months for 1337 haxxorz to disable all the triggers and get the normal experience.

That might have worked in the early 2000s, but these days cracking is so popular I suspect it'd take a week at most.

>>14469992

GOD FUCKING DAMN IT ANON, YOU JUST COULDN'T IGNORE THE FAGS, COULD YOU!? FUCK!

>>14469668

>I mean, this was Valve releasing a sequel in a year. That shit's practically unheard of.

L4D2 was probably the moment valve realized it's better to just do nothing while pretending shit is happening behind the scenes, and just let people burn out than to try and get rid of the valve time stigma. Then again, it's more likely that all the talent left after portal 2, and the retards working there now only care about DOTA 2 and CS:GO.

>>14468882

Only TPB plebs got that version anyways.

>>14469434

i own like ten kairosoft games and enjoyed them all

>>14468895

>>14468845

The fact that "sequels" are a thing you need to unlock first was fucking retarded. The concept of a sequel doesn't need research, it's existed since the dawn of entertainment mediums.

There's a fuckton of other shit in this game that pissed me off but that's the one that stood out most.

>>14469321

Actually, pirating it more or less solved the problem if you think about it, mod chip, and then make a backup of the original in a good CD, your original doesn't get worn out.

>>14470702

>not giving Shlomo over at R&D his hard-earned shekels for telling you what a sequel is

i liked mad game tycoon better

it already had this feature too for adding copy protection

>>14468920

They should add that feature too. Losing points for being a lazy rip-off.

>>14468845

Get Mad Games Tycoon instead. Much more fun and no review bullshit where it punishes you for making a good game.

No DRM either, easy pirate.

>>14472783

Mad Games Tycoon is slow as fuck and too much furniture micromanagement.

Wish there was a Game Tycoon game that had personality traits for employees.

This is so lazy, like a movie about making movies, but the pseudo-intellectuals love their >muh 4th wall breakage, so clever!!

>>14468895

Nobody said that 15+ years ago either when games had a shorter development lifecycle for a quality product. People were just happy to get games faster.

>>14475259

They call it "postmodernism," although even their obsession with it is usually just a watered-down version.

It's good to see content is still being put out for old games but fucking game dev tycoon of all things? It was trash to begin with and barely a game.

>>14469192

Now?

>>14468920

>>14468895

To be honest, I'd rather Nu-tendo revived Made in Wario DIY

>>14475333

Because jews.

Honestly it's been a running joke now as it has been shown that games that can be pirated day 1 tend to sell more than games with DRM bullshit as a mayority of buyers would rather like to try out the actual product or a Demo of it before shelling out $$$ for what is ultimately entretainment media.

Heck, "piracy hurts sales" is the same bullshit on why games don't do sharewares or free Demos for their games, it's the assumption that just because more people download and try the free version than those who buy it, it also means you're losing sales. If anything, all those people who tried the game for free told all their friends about how good the game was in the first place and told them to buy it or at least try out the demo, further spreading the game's popularity and its sales further enhanced by WoM effect.

Well either that, or because AAA only trows multimillion shovelware trash with a 60$ label now along with microtransactions out of the ass, to milk cashcows over Brandnames and useful idiots who fell for the buyer's remorse meme after preordering the piece of shit.

>>14475444

>try demo

>it's shit

>don't buy full version

DEMOS ARE HURTING OUR SALES

>>14470002

YOU IGNORE THEM AND THEY TAKE IT AS ACCEPTANCE, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THEM AND THEY POST MORE TO KEEP FUCKING WITH YOU. ITS A DAMNED IF YOU DO, DAMNED IF YOU DONT SCENARIO.

>>14475444

Happened to me with Just Cause 3.

>game about to drop

>lots of buzz everywhere, it's contagious, I wanna play it

>denuvo

>refuse to buy

>months go by, bad reviews start coming in, game is forgotten

>game finally gets cracked

>don't even give it a pirate due to zero interest

>>14468923

Devs have nothing to do with that decision.

>>14469060

I know I have a WebM somewhere in my stash with a gal singing the song (presumably the original). Gonna have a tough time finding it though.

>>14469039

That picture makes me erect

>>14468981

Didn't that protection fuck with legitimate copies of the game if they were even slightly scratched?

>>14469992

The wording on that should gone:

>You're attracted to this?

>Yup

>And it has a dick?

>Yup

>So it's a guy, right?

>Makes sense to me

>So you're gay

>But it's a feminine benis

>>14479777

With those trips I'll just give you sauce.

>>14469039

can't consider anything other than the loli in your pic, anon

>>14468955

Serious Sam is a game only liked by pc 'masterrace' cucks.

>>14508246

>(you)

>>14468947

I'll wait until they patch in a Denuvo option that massively increases sales before I call them real kikes.