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[MrWiggles]

A full simulator of a megacorp in a sci-fi setting. Start out small on Earth just as one randomly chosen sci-fi tech develops. Follow the tech curve and try to face out random events (That don't just disappear with a click of a mouse! If those miners rebel, you have to deal with it until you either opress them or give them that union). Eventually, you reach a technological singularity, and you may have to orchestrate the downfall of humanity to stop going out of business.

Just a general idea, though. I may come up with more.

Isn't X-Com Apocalypse sorta like this?

[Fniff]

A full simulator of a megacorp in a sci-fi setting. Start out small on Earth just as one randomly chosen sci-fi tech develops. Follow the tech curve and try to face out random events (That don't just disappear with a click of a mouse! If those miners rebel, you have to deal with it until you either opress them or give them that union). Eventually, you reach a technological singularity, and you may have to orchestrate the downfall of humanity to stop going out of business.

Just a general idea, though. I may come up with more.

Isn't X-Com Apocalypse sorta like this?

I wanna be an amoral bastard in a nice suit, not saving the Earth from aliens. As in, plenty of evil options would be nice.

[PTTG??]

You might be able to do some of that by modifying Aurora (4x). Also, you might be able to play Anno 2070 like that- there is an evil corporate side- but I'd suggest getting a cracked version. NOT that I'm advocating piracy, I'm just saying it's better than the alternative. Which I guess is technically advocating it, but I'm not advocating it in the same way that GoDaddy stopped advocating SOPA, which is to say, I am advocating it.

Anyway... Anno 2070 might be what you're looking for, although it's not space-based. There are bad guys in suits, though!

[Draco18s]

You might be able to do some of that by modifying Aurora (4x). Also, you might be able to play Anno 2070 like that- there is an evil corporate side- but I'd suggest getting a cracked version. NOT that I'm advocating piracy, I'm just saying it's better than the alternative. Which I guess is technically advocating it, but I'm not advocating it in the same way that GoDaddy stopped advocating SOPA, which is to say, I am advocating it.

"I'm here to fix your sink, and by fix your sink, I mean have sex with you, and by have sex with you, I mean fix your sink, and by sink I mean vagina."

Also, GoDaddy may have pulled support for SOPA, but they're still behind PIPA (which is just as bad).

[LoSboccacc]

I'm just saying it's better than the alternative.

why? its drm is that bad?

[Draco18s]

I'm just saying it's better than the alternative.

why? its drm is that bad?

When it's a rootkit virus?

Yes.  Yes it is.

[jnecros]

DF in 3d, as a F2P mmo

Failing that, I'd pay to play a FPS where I'm a diggle who slowly burrows into a bound, screaming, naked Newt Gingrich on live TV.

[MrWiggles]

DF is 3d.

[jnecros]

X/Y axis notwithstanding, a true visual 3d, complete with a pop-out effect, bells, whistles, and shiny bits would be buck

[LoSboccacc]

I'm just saying it's better than the alternative.

why? its drm is that bad?

When it's a rootkit virus?

Yes.  Yes it is.

oh ok. I was interested in the franchise, but I've the same qualms as you.

anyway, Ubisoft already was on my blacklist, so meh. (I've realized just now who the publisher was)

[Draco18s]

oh ok. I was interested in the franchise, but I've the same qualms as you.

anyway, Ubisoft already was on my blacklist, so meh. (I've realized just now who the publisher was)

Both Ubisoft and Sony have particularly bad practices with their DRM.

In any case, all DRM is non-functional as the hackers and pirates simply remove it before sharing it.

[Starver]

Pretty much my thoughts, about DRM's use.

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For any given rigidity of DRM mechanism, there are legitimate users below a certain level of accomplishment that can suffer at the hands of its well-meaning but flawed tie-in mechanism, who are obeying the rules and yet get locked out of the product.  And then there are other users who are above a certain level of ability (with/without assistance through tools made by others) who can get round the whole issue regardless of whether they should be enjoying the product.

And sometimes the 'threshold for legitimacy' is above the 'threshold for bypassing', and sometimes its the other way round.  Each with their own issues.  Either way, it tempts nominally legitimate users into using some workaround, and that could be a 'gateway drug' into downloading cracked versions of all kinds of software/protected media, doing nobody any good.  (Especially given that the warez and such could be malware vectors of one kind or another.)

Solutions?  I know of none.  That applies across the board, from the lowliest 'special sector on media' protected product to the ones that will only run while connected to the internet[1] and communicating with a master licence-controlling server...  Merely shifting the goalposts and sometimes switching the goal around completely.



[1] A bothersome concept.  Some games I would have liked to make available to a couple of nephews of mine, when they were younger, were of this sort.  Their parents (and I, I also suppose) were reluctant to give them internet access, so such pleasures (as with all the other pleasures, as per our initial fears) were denied them.  And I wasn't going to go for cracked versions and set a bad example...

[Leatra]

DRM attracts piracy. From what I've seen, most pirates pirate no matter what. But there are some pirates who pirate the game because they don't like the developer or something. That kind of pirates actually support indie games if they like it.

People are more likely to hate evil, money-hungry corporations and more likely to support peaceful, friendly indie devs.

[Draco18s]

Spoiler: Mini rant-like thing (click to show/hide)

And I wasn't going to go for cracked versions and set a bad example...

Just a thought:

Buy the game.
Install the game.
Apply the internet-connection-always-on crack.

You legitimately own the game, you just bypassed the DRM feature (which causes you a headache due to the circumstances).  And you need never tell your nephews.

DRM attracts piracy. From what I've seen, most pirates pirate no matter what. But there are some pirates who pirate the game because they don't like the developer or something. That kind of pirates actually support indie games if they like it.

People are more likely to hate evil, money-hungry corporations and more likely to support peaceful, friendly indie devs.

A lot of pirates are people who never would have paid for the game in the first place, and if not available in a pirated format would simply never play.  I've played games that way and paid for them later (can't recall offhand a title, though, on the other hand I can think of more than one game that I should never have paid for, but did).  Also, yes, indie dev support.  I prefer not to pirate an indie game, but on the chance that I do, and I enjoy it, I support the dev later.  Did this with World of Goo.

[PTTG??]

I've paid for DRM games and then pirated them to get the better experience.