dieseltaylor Posted March 30, 2009 Share Posted March 30, 2009 Tie yourself to any company who has you by the balls - I don't think so. Lets be honest even VERY large companies can go out of business - who is going to pay the legacy costs of running a server for free for a few gamers. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewood Posted March 30, 2009 Author Share Posted March 30, 2009 Let me rephrase... The poster child for for how not to use DRM. If you are a big company that can afford 24 hr support, dial home may work. But if you are a company of three and everyone needs some time off, you are stupid to depend on that server being up, unattended, to make your customers happy. I worked at a large factory automation company that tried dial home DRM and it was a disaster. We spent an incredible amount on overtime getting people in on weekends and after hours to fix access. We eventually went to a dongle system. The system would run for two weeks without the dongle and we shipped a spare with every system. We cut our support costs almost 30%, including the costs of dongles and overnighting dongles. The failure rate for dongles was almost immeasurable. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomm Posted April 3, 2009 Share Posted April 3, 2009 Nice "April's Fools" thread: http://forums.gamesquad.com/showthread.php?t=84011 The best (at least for those who follow the discussions over there) are the comments, though! Best regards, Thomm 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dieseltaylor Posted April 4, 2009 Share Posted April 4, 2009 Very funny. Nice modelling. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dieseltaylor Posted April 9, 2009 Share Posted April 9, 2009 http://www.armchairgeneral.com/war-plan-pacific-pc-game-review.htm For those who play at a higher level : ) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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