Re: all games everywhere are down
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Originally posted by Member 4148:
i guess i can see both sides - you have a popular game and want to slow pirates to get money that is rightfully yours - consumers want to play the game that they bought - a required call home cd check slows pirates but stops legit use in some circumstances the question is: which takes priority?
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True enough. But then thats true of any type of protection. This is actually one of the least bothersome that they could have chosen.
But before someone inevitably says something about how such things dont stop pirating, we should point out that protections like this are 95% about stopping "casual copying" by those legit customers.
They could have gone with a 5 deep named domain site such as 1.2.3.illwinter.com than an IP with an ISP like its doing now. Of course that makes it bypassable by anyone who knows what the host file on their machine is for but it would take care of your "sometime in the future" scenario. Everything has its pros and cons.
Maybe if sales go well they can go with a multihomed server, and alternating pointers between an illwinter server and a shrapnel server.
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