DRM Makes Developers Look Greedy, Says Just Cause 2 Dev
Christofer Sundberg, the founder of Avalanche Studios -- the studio behind the Just Cause series -- had some interesting things to say about the state of DRM, used games and battling piracy. While no one who has worked hard on a project wants to see their product pirated without seeing any returns, one thing that Sundberg believes is that DRM is almost worse by crippling gamers and making developers looking greedy in the process.
In an interview with Gamingbolt, Sundberg was asked a number of questions and his most interesting revolved aroudn the current trends of gaming, talking about DRM amidst the current SimCity scandal, saying...
No arguments from me on that.
Sundberg goes on to further discredit all the greedy publishers out there who have been badgering the used game market...a market where gamers were at first led to believe that it was hurting their beloved developers. But it turns out that used games have no effect on all the development studios that have closed up shop over the years.
According to Sundberg...
Right on, brother.
Now it's just too bad that other publishers just can't get the hint or refuse to look at things this way because the shareholders have their gonads twisted in a vice grip. It means that games like Tomb Raider get force-fed a shoehorned multiplayer mode that does nothing to add any value to the game whatsoever.
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Sundberg is on the right track though with just about every other core gamer out there when it comes to the state of the game industry, noting that a fall is imminent if things keep up with their current direction...
Activision and EA might want to whip out the pad and pen for that, but I fear it may be too late if SimCity is any indication of EA's future releases for both PC and home consoles.
Staff Writer at CinemaBlend.
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