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Fallout: New Vegas
Tom:
The way I see it, if I bought one version then I don't need to buy the other in order to play it...
ackblom12:
Oh piracy, a great excuse for rationalization.
Ozymandias:
This is why the PC can't have nice things.
snalin:
funny, though, pcs do have nice things. Like here, where they've lowered the retail price in some stores to fight piracy. I wasn't planning on buying CIV, but at 350NOK (compared to the standard 500NOK for console games), buying it becomes so much more feasable.
Also, if the same game was available for download for both consoles and pcs like 10-15 years ago, you probably would've been able to buy the game once, and get one code for each console. See Blizzard's spawn installs and the like - it seems like the companies cared more about enabeling their consumers to play in different ways earlier. I don't think it would hurt sales if they went back to that model. Or started using it if it was never really a thing.
ackblom12:
Different days, different developmental costs and there were shit loads of ways they fought piracy in those days. They just had to do it through other almost more irritating methods like requiring a password on line 12 of page 63 of this bullshit instruction manual.
Just because they didn't have the DRM capabilities they do now, doesn't mean they were all hunky dory with you making multiple copies for friends of the game you bought. Blizzard and Westwood were rather extreme exceptions and even Blizzard got sick of dealing with it once the internet made it even easier.
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