spaghettitime

This is all for naught.

Where is my multiplayer Donkey Kong. I want multiplayer Donkey Kong.

@SeriouslyNow said:

@SomeDeliCook said:

I thought they were "100%" sure they knew who the pirates were? Now they drop it?

Something can be annoying and needlessly aggressive even when it's 100% correct.

I believe SomeDeliCook's point is that if they're making sure to include clauses about CD-Key verifications in their letters, then they're safeguarding themselves from false positives and wrongful suits......when they claim to be 100% certain of their accusations. This is obviously dishonest seeing as they already admitted to cases of incorrectly identifying people as pirates, and there's no way (that any public agency is currently aware of) to 100% prove beyond a shadow of a doubt who downloaded what. So unless they divulge their methods to the press, they're essentially just blowing smoke while potentially harming customers as well as individuals who don't even know what a Geralt is.

@YukoAsho said:

Suing the pirates affects no legitimate users, and they shouldn't be crucified for protecting their games.

Have you never heard of false accusations? Yes, this practice absolutely CAN harm innocent people, and it often does in other cases like with the RIAA. I support their right to protect their intellectual property, however I do not condone the method they chose to do so.

@YukoAsho said:

Sooooo, basically developers can't do ANYTHING about piracy without pissing people off?

And then we wonder why SOPA exists?

SOPA and PIPA exist because groups like the MPAA and RIAA have hyper good lobbying connections and are able to throw their leverage around in order to grab more power which translates into coercing more citizens out of their cash. Don't attempt to pin the blame for such horrible legislature on video game consumers, that's pretty dumb.

CD Projekt Red took a fairly thuggish approach with their stated policy and now they've redacted it. So this is good news. I condemned them when they announced this and now I'm commending them for abandoning it. There's no need to call for their head on a pike or start degrading people in this thread or play fanboys and argue which console demographic is somehow at fault here; the bottom line is they seemed to have learned from their mistake.