Capcom To Bring Back Phone-Home DRM Due To PS3 Piracy.

[Thommo]

Capcom To Bring Back Phone-Home DRM Due To PS3 Piracy.

Written By: djp on February 5, 2011

Capcom has held its hand up, and the last time it has done this it had a abundance of complaints with its Final Fight: Double Impact game, because it had not told its customers that it needed to talk to it’s internet servers before use. This time around, they are giving the consumers a heads-up!

While we don’t support piracy at Console-Spot, we don’t seem to deem this fair for a lot of reason’s. What about the guys stuck up there in the woods with no internet, what about the guys on limited speeds, and the list can go on and on..

Anyways, Bionic Commando Rearmed 2 will require you to get a sign off from their servers before it will work.

The game’s listing on the PlayStation Network (PSN) clearly states, “You must log-in to the PlayStation Network each time to play the game,” which would be fair enough if the game boasted some kind of essential on-line element, but according to Joystiq that’s not the case. “Rearmed 2′s co-op is an adamantly offline-only affair, like its predecessor,” states the gaming blog.

Sony is currently embroiled in a constant game of cat and mouse with hackers and crackers, with new battle lines being drawn on what seems like a daily basis.

The recent revelation of a private key used by Sony and other developers to confirm the identity of genuine games has left the Japanese electronics giant facing the prospect of widespread piracy on the platform.

Other outfits have attempted to use ‘always-online’ DRM schemes in the past and have come under fire for punishing legitimate gamers rather than the pirates.

The hackers will, of course, see the latest DRM nonsense as a red rag to a bull, especially as there is no palpable benefit in the game’s on-line play mode.

Is it just us, or would Sony and its its game-developing partners be better served using all of the energy they expend trying to thwart a handful of pirates making the console and its games better value for money?


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ummm dont know what to say about his one so will just post and leave lol.



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[Raven24]

[QUOTE Is it just us, or would Sony and its its game-developing partners be better served using all of the energy they expend trying to thwart a handful of pirates making the console and its games better value for money?
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That's dumb because people will hack and pirate regardless unless it's a steaming pile of crap in which case few people would buy it or bother with. On the opposite end of the spectrum the better it is the more it gets pirated or hacked by the percentage of people that are into that world. As far as I'm aware there's plenty of hackers flat out refused to release code purely in fear of Sony's lawsuit. The problem for Sony is that there's too many people able to write code and do release so in effect to me at least it's similar situation to MP3 sites in a way - net police close down 5 sites and another 9 pop up.

It'll be interesting to see if the hackers will be in such a hurry to hack the PS4 when it's out though....I wonder if there'll be that many takers knowing how difficult the PS3 is/was and knowing that Sony will have them in court.

 

[jamesyboyjim]

Dont understand this, the 360 has been hacked for years but now with the ps3 the devs are getting pissy. The ps3's latest firmware isn't cracked which is what all future games will require anyway without modifying files but with xbox u just burn the disc and it boots. Or am I missing something?

 

[turner brown]

you missing that sony want to prove a point
ms would rather ban the console and sell more.
sony want to be untouchable by the looks of things
not that this will ever happen but the law suits are to try save
some jobs at sony is my guess

 

[Raven24]

you missing that sony want to prove a point
ms would rather ban the console and sell more.
sony want to be untouchable by the looks of things
not that this will ever happen but the law suits are to try save
some jobs at sony is my guess

Yeah exactly, see everything's connected and online now. That's probably the one major difference in landscape between this console generation and the last one as far as everyone's concerned. Last gen if you chipped your PS2 then that was it end of story and nothing Sony could do about it - now though everything is connected and it's all software based what with fw's, game update patches, online keys so on and so forth....so obviously there's a lot Sony can do now to track, trace and rectify. And more longer term strategy is the threat of court cases, as first thing people will think when PS4 is in hacker hands is the question of 'is it worth pursuing' because you know that will be locked down to hell and back when it eventually arrives (and it could be a lot sooner than one might think imo) and Sony clearly wouldn't hesitate to hang them out to dry in court if they were caught trying owt.