Blizzard: DRM is a 'losing battle'

[DSGamer64]

I know you havn't released a game since WoW, but DRM is a losing battle for everyone Blizz. Welcome to 2010.

I would say that their 14 or so million players who actually paid for WoW would agree that their methods of DRM protection seem to work just fine, even if it is just for online play. WoW only requires you to line a valid CD key to your account, Blizzard can tell if you tried to use a key gen in order to link a fake copy of the game, which is exactly what they will be doing with SC2.

 

[FluffyLunamoth]

I know you havn't released a game since WoW, but DRM is a losing battle for everyone Blizz. Welcome to 2010.

I would say that their 14 or so million players who actually paid for WoW would agree that their methods of DRM protection seem to work just fine, even if it is just for online play. WoW only requires you to line a valid CD key to your account, Blizzard can tell if you tried to use a key gen in order to link a fake copy of the game, which is exactly what they will be doing with SC2.

That's because it's an MMORPG. There IS NO offline mode. At all. So they don't need DRM on it, because it's rather difficult to trick a constantly updated server that you have the right code for it.

 

[iNFiNiTY]

Bnet 2.0 is worse than traditional DRM.

 

[Retal]

Nobody will want to pirate because they'll want to be connected to their friends and get achievements.

OK, Blizzard. OK.