EVE General Discussion

"Rock sucks, they should use scissors"
"nuh uh, Scissor blow, everyone knows they should be using paper"
"what, are you kidding me? Rock's the way to go"

Yes, because they design games with that in mind...not. All console games are designed for a controller and it usually shows when they get ported to a PC, especially for shooters.

It goes without saying that that's all imho.

NOTE: board's parser can't handle percent signs...

Here's a little something...

when I am not playing with guns, I pay the bills by working in the DRM industry. Though my employer does not have many game companies for clients - mostly engineering related software - I have set up numerous DRM and IP protection schemes and license control systems for many clients.

The worst part is this: the transfer of licenses is actually possible and easy when a system is configured for it. Our more honest clients - those who care about their customers - come to me with inquiries about license transfer all of the time.


So whatever "problem" that Sony and MS might be having with facilitating the transfer of licenses, and hence the movement of used software, is pure 100 percent BULLSHIT.

In fact, the transfer of licenses on the internet with the ability to speed along patches and modules along the same communications streams should ENHANCE the realm of used software, not impede it. I have spent countless hours setting up systems where one user can transfer a license and download credentials to another across the world, fully authenticated and encrypted (and hence no piracy possible) without even having to use complicated passwords.

I have worked in this field for a long time and any restrictions on use of software, "because of Piracy", makes as much sense as a government that searches your grandmother for bombs at the airport "because of terrism".

It's more than a lie, they are peeing down our backs and trying to tell us it's raining. And because of this, while I waited and wanted to try DUST for years now, and would have purchased a console just to do it, I have decided now that any organization doing business the way Sony is at this time is not going to get one penny of my money. They, as my late father said so much we almost put it on his headstone, "Can go f**k themselves". Unless DUST is going to PC, I am going to have to look at it like the cheerleader from high school that I never got to date: accept it and move on.

Sorry CCP.

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"because of piracy" is based on companies collecting as much profit from digitally based "intellectual property" as possible. It's all about money.

Not going to really touch on the "because of terrorism" part as I'd like to avoid the potential **** storm that will be an internet based argument on the matter. However I can assure you that it's not about making more money.

That is quite a good point. It is software, so it could be in essence pirated, but then you get no diverse maps, no eve player support, essentially you need to be legit to get any of the fun and good stuff that eve is about. To the previous poster about licenced copy, very true about software being easy to transfer with limited registration. I have some tech software I use for automotive purposes. I can either just click a link and deactivate it on one pc, or I can just give a quick mail to their tech support if that isn't possible. Problem solved happy and dandy.

With xbox, stuff can get assigned to a user account. I have logged in my xbla on a different xbox and redownloaded stuff. on other xbox, I can access provided that I am logged in.