Don\'t Worry About Copy Write Protection!
 

According to Brad Wardell of Stardock (GalCiv developer), copy write protection is not needed because the PC gaming industry is "doomed."

Man I really don't know what to say other than WOW.

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Uh, I think he's saying that the reason doom is predicted for the pc game industry is because it uses copy protection.

And I'd have to agree that that is a doom-type thing.

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You are wrong on this one Atro.

Another one of his posts

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I would hope that I am wrong. Being right is way to extreme for me to be dealing with at the moment. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

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Yup. The computer game industry has been doomed since the late 1970's if memory serves. I bet it has been doomed longer than the author of that quote has been alive. No reason to think it will get undoomed any time soon.

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The last console system that I've ever owned was an Atari 2600. Ever since then, I've only played PC games.

As far as I can tell, it's the console industry that's doomed.

Guess it all depends on a certain point of view. Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly upon our own point of view.

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The only console I've ever owned (and it was actually my parents...) was an original Nintendo system. Still have it actually http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

If I was the only customer, it'd be the shallow console games that were "doomed".

As long as there's even a small market for something, there will be suppliers. For the forseeable future, there'll continue being thousands of computer gamers, thus the industry is far from "doomed".

I see the end of dedicated computer gaming once the computer, TV, stereo, satellite system are all integrated into one unit. Then again, that'd spell the death of dedicated console gaming too!

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Sounds like the Voltron of wallet-leeching electronics.

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We are all doomed. Every product I own will be broken in ten years. Every company I do business with with be gone in 50. Every one of their entire industries will be gone and replaced by something else in 100.

By don't worry, you and I and everybody else we know will be dead by then, so it doesn't really matter.

I don't even know why I bother writing this. No-one will remember reading it in a month, and no-one will even remember humanity exsisted in a million years.

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Humanity has a lot of illogical behavior that cannot be attributed to evolution - But that's OT.