What would you see as strong sales in order to stay in business and for Japanese game businesses to be interested in the American market?
If people would just be more honest with themselves and stop pretending to be such conservatives !!!
quote:Ahem... [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/smile.gif[/img] There's also well financed open minded persons too you know oneesan [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/smile.gif[/img].
Originally posted by Kumiko Kamiyama:
Conservative does not mean opposed to adult material... only certain ultra-right extremist (very well financed) religious groups are that way.
Well I have said this to you before Kumiko but why doesn 't PeaPri try a sort of protection like that game Diablo 2 has: you can 't play online if you don 't have the original game. Maybe PeaPri could do something like online registry or maybe even better those who bought the game need to reregister their games once in a month or so… I am just trying to help a bit
… weasel
It’s a thought but the problem is numbers. For every programmer you have trying to think of interesting and creative ways to prevent piracy, there’s about 100 just as creative people who are working the opposite angle. That’s why security is one of the issues that gives us computer people fits! I’ve yet to see an anti-piracy plan or format that has lasted longer than a few weeks before someone’s found a way around it. Even the Diablo 2’s registry system doesn’t exactly work because it only prevents pirates from using battle.net not from the game itself. For instance, the only time I ever used my Diablo 2 CD-key was to get the current patch. However, according to the account thingy, if I don’t log back in to battle.net within a few days, the account I created just to get the patch will be automatically deleted. Which means I could probably hand off my CD-key to someone else and they could use it at that point.
Unfortunatley, there’s just no easy solution to this problem. Best we can do as consumers is to patronize the legitimate people and to notify the proper people when we do run across a pirate.
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Originally posted by ekylo:
It's a thought but the problem is numbers. For every programmer you have trying to think of interesting and creative ways to prevent piracy, there's about 100 just as creative people who are working the opposite angle. That's why security is one of the issues that gives us computer people fits! I've yet to see an anti-piracy plan or format that has lasted longer than a few weeks before someone's found a way around it. Even the Diablo 2's registry system doesn't exactly work because it only prevents pirates from using battle.net not from the game itself. For instance, the only time I ever used my Diablo 2 CD-key was to get the current patch. However, according to the account thingy, if I don't log back in to battle.net within a few days, the account I created just to get the patch will be automatically deleted. Which means I could probably hand off my CD-key to someone else and they could use it at that point.Unfortunatley, there's just no easy solution to this problem. Best we can do as consumers is to patronize the legitimate people and to notify the proper people when we do run across a pirate.
Well even tho you might not need a cd-key to play Diablo2, doesn't it still reduce the pirating of the game? And how would that work for bishoujo games? The game itself would need to access the internet before even allowing you to start the game and enter your cd-key. Plus another thing i have in mind is you MUST regiter the game before you can even play it for the first time. So whenever you start your game it sends the information to the company..... But that would take alot of work wounldn't it?...
No, it doesn’t reduce pirating to any significant degree. At my old workplace, I can think of several games where only two of us had legitimate copies but everyone else had pirated ones. Granted, we had a higher percentage of people doing stuff like that because we were all computer professionals and we tend to know all the tricks to get around things like registrations and CD-keys.
And even the games where they try to force you to register prior to being able to play the game, that’s still no guarantee. This is because that sort of registration usually works in two ways. The main way is that once you register, the company sends you an “unlock” key to use. However this can easily be duplicated and shared. (Also, very good hackers can break into the code and figure out what the valid keys are just from the CD itself without bothering the company.)
The second way is that the game won’t “unlock” itself unless you do the process of registration. Companies don’t use this much because they’re in effect, telling the consumer that you HAVE to share information with the company. People have become very reluctant to share information via the net, even simple stuff like name and address because you tend to get a bunch of junk mail when that info gets out. And you don’t really want to know what hackers can do with just that little bit of information. Plus, there’s a very simple way around this and it has to do with the fact that not everyone has internet access on their system. If you block your access to the internet, the registration info isn’t sent but the game is still “unlocked” because the process is completed.
These are just two examples of how there are always ways around such safeguards. In effect, the computer community runs on a big honor system. Take PeaPri for example. Even if they put a whole bunch of safeguards and anti-piracy knick-knacks on their games, there’s a good chance I or someone better than me will find a way around them. However, I personally don’t try to find ways because I want PeaPri to stay in business and bring out games in the future. I also buy legitimate copies of the games for the same reason. And PeaPri has to trust that I’m not buying the game to make a 1,000 copies of my own to sell at lower prices. There’s no way they can tell me from a pirate after all, unless somebody squeals and even then, they wouldn’t know if I’m a source, a middle-man, or just a third party to the piracy.
It’s a complex issue. Like I said, it also has no easy solutions. I wish the world wasn’t like this and that I could trust the next person to be as honorable and responsible as I am when it comes to piracy. But I can’t, because there are always people in the world who will try to beat the system, without regards as to who gets hurt when they do beat it.
speaking of sales…
i was just at www.animenation.com
and was reading their description for Water Closet
highly amusing
Kumiko especially should have a look
hehe congratulations
LOL, may they use your description Kumiko ?
Hey einhancer I got your email, check it out
Damn, and how about reregistering the game online ? Or having customers a kind of code or something ?
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Originally posted by Kumiko Kamiyama:
But that's taken directly from our page - it's Kumiko intro to the game. Hey - she had to go, okay?! Do you have a problem with a cute girl needing to go pee or something? Hmmm? [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/biggrin.gif[/img]
Heh, I'm guessing they think Kumiko's a character in the game. Not that we wouldn't mind a game with you in it... [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/wink.gif[/img]
Actually, I have no problem with a cute girl needing to go pee, it's when they're constantly telling me about it. Not like they need my permission or anything. [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/smile.gif[/img]
(another thread that I got lost track of)
AAAh, a game with Kumiko ? Yeah, that would be very interesting
So you are into pee-pee and poo-poo sex ?
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Originally posted by Kurutsu:
So you are into pee-pee and poo-poo sex ?
Was this directed at me? Oh well, I'll answer anyways, I really don't feel like doing work at this moment. This kinda of stuff isn't really one of my fetishes. I'll admit to an interest in anal sex but not at the same time things are heading on their way out.
My comment about not having a problem with girls peeing (after all, it's a biological function that does need to be taken care of) is the lead in to the second half about them constantly telling me about it. One of my co-workers at my old workplace would always tell me when she was off to the bathroom. Granted I was the senior in the dept. but I do figure that people every so often need to go to the bathroom, confer with someone in another department, eat, get away from all the horny computer specialist (uh, nevermind... [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/smile.gif[/img] ) I finally pointedly asked her "do you feel some obscure need for my permission each time?"
Come to think of it, some of my high school friends used to do the same thing too. (Right up there with saying "I'm sorry" even when they did nothing wrong.) Hmm, I wonder if I just have a "bathroom monitor" look to me or something...
yeah, girls go to the bathroom alot, especially at work. Don 't ask me why but when I was little I asked permission everytime ^_^'
So what are you trying to tell us Kumiko ?