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I think Rockstar is big enough to work on two things at the same time.
by recursive 6y ago
I think Rockstar is big enough to work on two things at the same time.
- andrewxdiamond 6y agoThey are referring to the quality tradeoffs that must be made when adding DRM to a game. It adds overhead at the very least, and many games, Triple As included, have had game breaking faults due to shoddy DRM implementations.
- asdfasgasdgasdg 6y agoSeems to have balanced out ok in RDR2.
- redisman 6y agoRDR2 is fairly poorly optimized but I'm not really taking these anecdotal "DRM makes games slow" comments too seriously until there's some proof. Games are almost never CPU bound so I just don't see how obfuscation is supposedly killing performance.
- andrewxdiamond 6y agoHere, I did the quick google search you could have done and found some data on DRM performance implications in real world games. https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/282924-denuvo-really-does-cripple-pc-gaming-performance https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/282924-denuvo-really-does...
- asdfasgasdgasdg 6y agoThat's article only has data about the performance implication of a particular DRM product, not DRM in general.
- andrewxdiamond 6y agoYeah, but in Rockstars other recent AAA title, GTA5, they had game breaking bugs due to it. So they don’t exactly have a perfect track record https://www.polygon.com/pc/2019/9/19/20874098/rockstar-games-launcher-drm-spyware-pc-grand-theft-auto-5 https://www.polygon.com/pc/2019/9/19/20874098/rockstar-games...
- shmerl 6y agoThe fact of using DRM is already an insult to their customers. Apparently they can afford insulting those who buy their games.
- recursive 6y agoWhich customers? I'm one, and I didn't even know it had DRM, much less feel insulted.
- shmerl 6y agoAll customers. DRM treats those who buy their games as apriory potential criminals (that's the premise of DRM by its very definition as a preemptive policing). I find it insulting. The general premise and intent of DRM was described well here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal#Background https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk... Those who don't find such kind of approach insulting can probably accept other methodologies of overreaching preemptive policing too.
- recursive 6y agoAre you insulted by online services that require you to enter a password? I'm not. Anyway, if you're insulted by a game, don't play it.
- shmerl 6y agoI think you are mixing up authentication with DRM. Authentication is a normal concept, for example for buying something you need to show that you are you, to associate your payment with your purchase. DRM is restricting your usage after you already bought it by deploying some kind of malware in your system. It's overreaching preemptive policing.
- recursive 6y agoDefine "malware". Authentication also applies for services you've paid for, even after you've paid for them. And none of this has anything to do with police.