BioWare On PC Piracy

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MTV Multiplayer has a new article today with the creators of Mass Effect, Bioware and their take on PC piracy.

Piracy continues to hurt PC gaming, and no one has a clear answer to the problem.

Development studio Crytek has proposed abandoning PC-exclusive game releases. BioWare, however, is less radical. They’re looking at downloadable content, access to multiplayer and — here’s a new one — simply encouraging consumer loyalty.

“We’re doing a lot of post-release downloadable content on all of our PC titles going forward,” said BioWare co-CEO Ray Muzyka to me last week. “We think it’s a good thing to encourage players to make them want to buy a PC title. That’s ultimately the best, most successful path to prevent piracy — to have players that want your games, want to believe in them and think they’re high-quality and realize they’re going to get a lot of value out of them as platforms for long time afterwards.”

Muzyka said “Dragon Age” — to be revealed tomorrow — will join “Mass Effect” as a BioWare game supported long after launch with new content.

It won’t be long before we find out how BioWare’s hypothesis pans out.

Read the whole article here.

Do you think BioWare's plans to fight PC piracy will work? Let us know.

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Re: BioWare On PC Piracy

MTV Multiplayer has a new article today with the creators of Mass Effect, Bioware and their take on PC piracy.

Piracy continues to hurt PC gaming, and no one has a clear answer to the problem.

Development studio Crytek has proposed abandoning PC-exclusive game releases. BioWare, however, is less radical. They’re looking at downloadable content, access to multiplayer and — here’s a new one — simply encouraging consumer loyalty.

“We’re doing a lot of post-release downloadable content on all of our PC titles going forward,” said BioWare co-CEO Ray Muzyka to me last week. “We think it’s a good thing to encourage players to make them want to buy a PC title. That’s ultimately the best, most successful path to prevent piracy — to have players that want your games, want to believe in them and think they’re high-quality and realize they’re going to get a lot of value out of them as platforms for long time afterwards.”

Muzyka said “Dragon Age” — to be revealed tomorrow — will join “Mass Effect” as a BioWare game supported long after launch with new content.

It won’t be long before we find out how BioWare’s hypothesis pans out.

Read the whole article here.

Do you think BioWare's plans to fight PC piracy will work? Let us know.

How many of Valve's Steam titles have been pirated and to what extent?


there's your answer.

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Re: BioWare On PC Piracy

Also, Crytek, who made Crysis, is very bad on piracy. People can download the game, and then play single player, and multiplayer very easily.

Crytek and all other Game Studios should do the same thing as what they did with Quake 4. To use a cracked game with Quake 4 you have to open Quake 4, disable your internet connection, put in the fake key, then press submit. Then you have to go into a server, and while connecting, you have to do the same thing, which means you it disconnects you and you can't get in any servers. I'm sure they made cracked exe's to get around it, but that is simply the best way so far.

Go ID Software as you guys are the smartest on piracy out there.

The following is not to promote "cracked" playing. It is against it.