Software piracy can be ended on Steam games

[Viper]

Steam I imagine will soon have a system checker that monitors you computer for pirate software. If its found your banned and lose your entire game collection. Its not hard to do..and I am suprised they have not done it yet.

[TheRealBeauregard]

Even the police need a warrant to search your computer. Valve won't even try this due to the massive PR cluster@#$% it'd cause. Plus a lot of people, myself included, would simply stop using their service. I'd rather pirate games than give a corporation permission to search my computer.

[Doc Clarke]

Who does the OP think STEAM are? The software police. They have no right (and would be challenged and LOSE) if they insisted oin doing a HDD sweep and siabling software that has nothing to do with them.
What a stupid statement.
It's like those people who think Google own or ARE the internet - or at least the internet police - rather than a 100% private for profit company that sells ad space on a directory list of other websites (which in essence is all they are)
Sometimes things get so big people get confused and think they have rights or agendas well outside of the law.
at dbgager - no - companies do not have every right to protect their products. They have "some" rights - and taking over privately owned computers scanning for third party software is a very very long way outside what they have a right to do. If they tried to implement this - even with a user agreement that we had ticked - the contract would likely be deemed invalid if tested in court.
I suspect it would be found intrusive and none legal censorship, counter competitive and anti-trust.

[|(๏̯͡๏ JλςҜ♣Ҳ̸λnO]

引用自 dbgager：

引用自 |(๏̯͡๏ JλςҜ♣Ҳ̸λnO：

if they did monitor your computer and everything you do, alot of people around the world are gonna get very, very mad. becuase then not many will use Steam and Valve will lose alot of money.

alot of people are already ♥♥♥♥ angry at the NSA for monitoring you, even outside the US borders. if Valve join'd them, they're no better then NSA.

Companies have a right to protect their products. If you have nothing to hide then it does not effect you.

and i agree, but the way they're doing it is only caseing more problems than doing good. the lack of a demo makes people pirate games just to try it and see if it's worth it or not, but sometimes they just say "♥♥♥♥ it, i love it but im not paying for it" Activision and EA are both ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and many people don't feel like buying their crap of a product, so they pirate it and say "haha, ♥♥♥♥ you, no money for you"

it's complete chaos.

[dq_177]

引用自 Mandemon：

引用自 dq_177：

Is there a reason you brought this up on the Xcom forum?

People being entitled brats and demanding XCOM: Enemy Within to be released NAO! or they will pirate the ♥♥♥♥ out of the game to "teach a lesson".

Hah well to be frank I am somewhat annoyed that I have to wait even longer than I already have to rather than the Americans who get it a few days earlier.

Though I've already pre-ordered it so its not like I could pirate it even if that was something I would plan to do

[Llamedos]

piracy is a service problem, improve the service, reduce the piracy. but you will never get rid of it completly.

[|(๏̯͡๏ JλςҜ♣Ҳ̸λnO]

引用自 Commander Methos：

piracy is a service problem, improve the service, reduce the piracy. but you will never get rid of it completly.

because Pirates always finds a way around the security programs.

[Llamedos]

引用自 |(๏̯͡๏ JλςҜ♣Ҳ̸λnO：

引用自 Commander Methos：

piracy is a service problem, improve the service, reduce the piracy. but you will never get rid of it completly.

because Pirates always finds a way around the security programs.

that and some people will just dont want to pay for anything

[Deimios]

Piracy sends the wrong message. It says: PC gaming is not worth investing in, which in turn reinforces the position of consoles which results in even larger power given to the retailers.
Imagine if most people playing this game on PC would buy it. Now imagine if all the non-US gamers would complain formally to the publisher stating that it is NOT OK to delay the digital release because of physical media and retailers.
Money talks and if enough customers voice their opinion the state of the industry could change. As it stands now, piracy is in a feedback loop: delayed releases cause piracy which in turn reinforce delayed releases on PC.

[tt0022]

引用自 dbgager：

引用自 |(๏̯͡๏ JλςҜ♣Ҳ̸λnO：

if they did monitor your computer and everything you do, alot of people around the world are gonna get very, very mad. becuase then not many will use Steam and Valve will lose alot of money.

alot of people are already ♥♥♥♥ angry at the NSA for monitoring you, even outside the US borders. if Valve join'd them, they're no better then NSA.

Companies have a right to protect their products. If you have nothing to hide then it does not effect you.

haha very funny. we are not in america here, they have no right to look at your pc's and if they do they will get in a ton of problems with law's and other stuff.
And if you want that stuff to happen. Why don't you send a copy of your hard drive directly to steam? Don't remove any of it because that would be hiding stuff.
If you don't want to do it because it is a stupid idea. Don't post stuff about practically the same thing.

[Garatgh Deloi]

I bet the pirates will figure out a way to hide their hardrive content from steam 10 minutes after the function is added (if its ever added).

The pirates use more resources in the struggle (free manpower), they will allways win in the end.

[Viper]

I agree that it would probably be seen as to intrusive by people ..and would probably hurt Steam due to lost customers. They would most likely lose more money than they would gain. However...some games already do this to some extent..For example WOW monitoring for bot programs.

[manicminer]

引用自 Deimios：

Piracy sends the wrong message. It says: PC gaming is not worth investing in, which in turn reinforces the position of consoles which results in even larger power given to the retailers.
Imagine if most people playing this game on PC would buy it. Now imagine if all the non-US gamers would complain formally to the publisher stating that it is NOT OK to delay the digital release because of physical media and retailers.
Money talks and if enough customers voice their opinion the state of the industry could change. As it stands now, piracy is in a feedback loop: delayed releases cause piracy which in turn reinforce delayed releases on PC.

LOL you are joking right ? you know that most of the time xbox pirate realase is faster that pc pirate release ?
Poor and bugy releases, no demo, disparity between release dates - i need to wait 2 more days when pirate copy is already working and US can play too. EU games have higher prices than isn US. We have more and more ♥♥♥♥♥♥ producers with ♥♥♥♥♥♥ games and they blame piracy for it.
And scanning somoene computer is illegal.

[Mandemon]

引用自 Whiteloaf：

引用自 Mandemon：

People being entitled brats and demanding XCOM: Enemy Within to be released NAO! or they will pirate the ♥♥♥♥ out of the game to "teach a lesson".

But its completely valid.
Its an outdated and idiotic practice being forced on the publishers by ever more irrelevant physical retailers.
Protest at this point is a GOOD thing. We need to move forward not backwards, as a consumer I honestly dont get why youd support something like that by publishers.

And piracy is the solution?

Guess what, it will only make things worse as companies either go bankrupt OR introduce even more intrusive DRMs to ♥♥♥♥ up your computer, with support of the law as they now have "proof" of piracy.

Where were all you people when the game was announced? Why weren't you on the official 2K forums spamming the place with "Release on the same date!" or sending e-mails? Or starting some petition.

It would have done a lot better than spamming about "PIRATE THE GAME TO TEACH A LESSON!" now.