Split-Screen :: The Game-Geek’s Daily Read

Fallout 3 will not cramp PC gamers’ style with overwhelming DRM odds. Peter Hines, spokesman for Bathesda was asked by ShackNews what kind of copy protection measures they are going to take for the game. He said:

Pretty similar to what we did for Oblivion, which was–we basically don’t do any–we do the mildest form possible. I actually don’t know if I even want to get into what it is that we exactly do, but we try to be really noninvasive when it comes to that stuff. [ed- Oblivion employed a simple DVD check.]

And it is a pain in the ass–it is a pain in the ass that we have to do it at all in the first place. But when you spend tens of millions of dollars, we don’t think it’s right to just put something out there and let everybody do whatever they want and pass it around.

And to have to support all of that–which is often the unspoken thing that nobody really wants to point to. You can argue all day whether or not somebody would have bought a copy of a game they pirated, but you can’t argue, and you will never win the argument that I’m not having to provide tech support for those folks. Because I know for a fact that we are. We catch those folks all the time, where we’re providing support for somebody who turns out didn’t actually pay for the game and just downloaded a copy. (hat tip)