@oyvs no it won't be on next gen as it has probably been in dev for years for current gen. But expect a Rockstar game of some kind for PS4 as they are working on a PS4 based engine.
@aoticPrototype Wow! I haven't been told to "Suffer" since I was at school. GTAV will come to PC and I will be able to install ALL of it to HD and have 1000's of mods to play with and not have to piss around with a CD and be able to change graphic options etc etc but you get to play it a couple of months early.... woopie doo.
@sadscooterpipe We, the consumers, should never have stood for DRM but unfortunately a lot of people are happy to blindly accept what they are given. Sim City 5 sold 1 million copies in 3 weeks despite it being a flagrant abuse of our rights and a piss poor product.
If you accept DRM the company can stop you playing the game with no refund, monitor and control what you do which is an invasion of privacy and you have no leg to stand on. I refuse to buy any game that has DRM and so should all gamers. It's time we told these aholes what we think with our wallets.
Shame on software companies for forcing procedures with poor security on us and shame on them for using unscrupulous techniques to line their pockets with gold.
So let me get this straight, these companies want to force DRM on us but can't safeguard the security of it even though thats the reason their giving for doing it in the first place?? WTF?
@slowram The point is EA are saying it has to be online to play because the software is server side but the article clearly shows that's not true and EA are liars. With regards to cracking to avoid copy protection, ie pirating, just have a quick google and you can soon find places to download a cracked version. Though I condemn any kind of piracy even for EA games. Hacking/cracking is the same thing for what we are discussing. Saying DRM is 100% uncrackable is simply untrue and that is not it's purpose anyway.
@slowram I wouldn't have said it if it wasn't true. look it up yourself. SC5 was cracked to play offline a week after release. You're fooling yourself if you think DRM is to stop hackers.
@jimrhurst I have been making indy (pd) games for over 20 years and worked for SonyCEE and the only way to make sure your game doesn't get watered down is to go the indy path. 20+ years ago devs had more freedom but now, as in the movie industry, corporations like to stick their big nose in because they have a checklist of what they want in games. Its a damn shame. Maxis bowed down to EA instead of sticking to their guns and Sim City is the mess that resulted.
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