Going to the dentist sucks. It’s like mouth hell, with tongues of flame replaced by regular tongues, drills, needles, and toothpaste so awful-tasting that it makes us want to wait 30 hours before eating instead of 30 minutes. But until the day we invent super-powered ray guns that blast our teeth clean in the blink of an eye, the dentist is – sadly enough — our only option. That, more or less, is how Witcher 2 publisher Namco Bandai feels about Ubisoft’s almost universally reviled DRM system.
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“I will be very honest. I think it’s a good [approach] for one reason: I have no alternative today. Is the best one? Certainly not but as of today if I can make something else I’ll do it, but it’s better to do something than not do something,†Namco Bandai Partners VP Olivier Comte said. “At the moment they are doing a good strategy.â€
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He added, however, that Namco Bandai’s doing everything in its power to craft a better, smarter successor to the DRM throne. Even then, though, the publisher still sees gray skies ahead.
“I’m convinced that whatever system you put in place you can be sure that two hours before putting it out it’ll be cracked in Russia. I think that the combat against piracy is very complicated because it’s very complicated to explain to a 12-year-old that drag and dropping a file on a PC is piracy – he was born with this,†Comte explained.
Between the rainbow of racial slurs on Xbox Live and now this, it seems like the solution to all of gaming’s ills is simple: eliminate all 12-year-olds. Thoughts? Seems pretty sensible to us.Â
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Namco Bandai: Ubisoft’s DRM is “A Good Strategyâ€
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