Anti Piracy

[SpencerH]

Rootkit bedamned, they should use Securom. I trust Firaxis and 2K games implicitly.

[Sir Og]

I have bought all Civ4 versions but I have always installed and played the pirated versions for convenience.
Will do the same for Civ5.

[Giraflorens]

I got to know and to play Civ IV thanks to a pirate copy. And I liked so much and the price was so reasonable that i bought 3 copies for me and for some friends.

Good price and good stuff is the best arm against pirates.

[Greybriar]

The least intrusive copy protection method the better. If Civ5 has a draconic DRM or if it requires an internet connection to install and play a single player game, I won't buy it.

[Robert]

Civ is a fangame anyway, fans will buy it.
And illegal downloaders may be converted to fanhood and become buying fans as well.

Best way to include any form of protection is imho include online services (like MP, scenario downloads, extra civ downloads, etc) with a registration check.
This makes it interesting for players to buy the game, but it won't limit people without a connection or the DVD at the place where they are.

[SpencerH]

They could return to the 3 questions. That was a very effective anti-piracy method.

[MikeH]

I got to know those without the manual, could probably still do them today tbh.

Would take about 10 mins until someone put the questions and answers list online. No copy protection FTW.

[CanuckSoldier]

Agree! Very bad idea to need a internet connection at all times to play the game! What if you like to play with your laptop on holliday for example? So what does people do? Find a crack to play the game offline!

Well I've seen 2-3 day lag in D2D patches compared to the GS lobby driven ones, not a big issue unless you happen to want to play MP in those days :-/

CS

[SpencerH]

I got to know those without the manual, could probably still do them today tbh.

Would take about 10 mins until someone put the questions and answers list online. No copy protection FTW.

As a brit, I would've thought you had an appreciation of sarcasm.

[Lord Avalon]

They could return to the 3 questions. That was a very effective anti-piracy method.

Perhaps if there were a Gorge of Eternal Peril.

STOP! He who would cross the Bridge of Death must answer me these questions three, ere the other side he see..

[dannubis]

As a brit, I would've thought you had an appreciation of sarcasm.

Brits are funny just because they don't have a clue what sarcasm is

[MikeH]

As a brit, I would've thought you had an appreciation of sarcasm.

We know Americans don't have a sense of sarcasm so filter you through that knowledge.

[SpencerH]

Born on the way to Hammersmith Hospital, so not an American.

[Jon Miller]

I like Steam.

I use to sometimes do a crack on games I bought, I hated having to find a CD/etc.

JM

[Gobeavs]

They could have a timer. You put the disk in and it touches base with Firaxis via the internet. Then you have (say) 100 hours of game time before it starts asking to see the disk again. 100 hours of game time will be enough for 5 or 6 days for most of us (assuming you have a job and don't have that many sick days saved up).

The whole idea is that you could touch up just before a vacation and know that you were good for the next 100 hours of down time. At home you wouldn't have to have the disk in the drive all the time.