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Re:The Awful Anti-Pirate System That Will Probably Work by alextgordon on Friday February 26, 2010 @07:34AM (#1153004)
This is a test on Ubisoft's part. They're testing how the crackers, pirates and market react. I'm sure if they make significantly less money than expected they'll scrap the idea. On the other hand if they make more money, they'll roll it out to future releases.

My guess is that they'll make less money. Even if a some people buy the game instead of pirating it, the abysmal reviews on Amazon will have a stronger effect.

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Re:The Awful Anti-Pirate System That Will Probably Work by Avshalom on Friday February 26, 2010 @02:24PM (#1153896)
> I'm sure if they make significantly less money than expected they'll scrap the idea.

OR they'll still blame piracy and try to make it even harder. until it's nothing more than a streaming webcam pointed at a TV playing it on an xbox.

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Re:The Awful Anti-Pirate System That Will Probably Work by nitrogen on Friday February 26, 2010 @11:09PM (#1154886)
Those days are probably just around the corner. At least one company is trying to make 1080p streamed games playable. They could install beefy compute servers with 8 video cards per machine in ISP local offices to deal with latency issues.
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