WATCH_DOGS is one of the more interesting games out there, and it looks to be a bridge title between current generation, next generation and PC systems. It raised a lot of interest with it's open-world hacker mythos where the game's antiheroes can actively hack electronic devices, learn details about people they meet on the street, and even more.
I've been waiting for this one a while, and I'll be waiting a bit longer, but at least there's a release date, today it was announced that the title would release on PC, Xbox360 and PS3 on November 19th. It also will be a PS4 launch title, and is scheduled for the NeXbox).
And I have to admit, that while I'm pretty anti-DRM, I have to give a thumbs up to the folks who made Game Dev Tycoon (now, admittedly, no points for originality, it's a PC ripoff of the iOS/Android game Game Dev Story from Kairosoft), but they released the game with no DRM, except for a very specific version they placed on a pirate site.
This version had a message where after a good amount of time, a message pops up:
"Boss, it seems that while many players play our new game, they steal it by downloading a cracked copy instead of buying it legally. If players don't buy the games we like, we will sooner or later go bankrupt"
From that point on, the company sales go down due to pirate copies, and the company's funds dwindle.
Now, I have a problem with the contents of the message, as no less then the Supreme Court has held that copyright infringement is NOT stealing/theft.. but at least they have a sense of humor about it.
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