How to prevent piracy.

I've always been saying every game has to have a multiplayer

Best way to prevent piracy is to take the North Korean approach of restricting a nation's internet access to a handful of third rate websites.

Piracy in North Korea is practically non-existent although, admittedly, so are computers less than twenty years old...

There is no way to prevent piracy and forced MP wouldn't help. The only thing that could maybe stop it would be a DRM that's impossible to remove/crack (which I would rather like to see than all those pirates).

Preventing Piracy is like learning how to fly without wings.

only cracked servers which sucks

Oh sure, nobody would make a dedicated crack servers for MP games.

heh, i think you need to think more

Well, my marketing plan is a bit different.

You get a simple setup, sort of like a kickstarter, where you set a minimum goal, then people who want the game can donate.

However, no one will get the game until the minimum goal is reached. Then it will be free to download for anyone. The people who donate will obviously get some sort of special treatment.

ok, first of all why would you want to stop piracy?

Speaking from my own experience when i was a kid without steady income i use to pirate everything. If there were no piracy back then companies wouldn't get money from me anyway since my money was very limited. I would simply found another free hobby and in long run game developers would be the one who lost money. Because without piracy i wouldn't get hooked into video games and now when I'm twenty something with good job I would be spending my money on another hobby.

its not so black and white as some publishers try to present. Just because game got pirated xxx times doesn't mean that without piracy sales would go up even 1/10 of that number.

HAHA, funny story: multiplayer can be easily pirated as well, depending on the game.
Also, wtf? You ARE aware not all games are fit for multi, right? And that it ruins the game sometimes?
There are some parts, which I prefer, like the STORY, the PLOT, the SINGLE PLAYER possibilities.
Not all games are for retarded EA/ Activision kids, you know. (no offense to mature people who actually like such games)

That's ridiculous.

I think it is a really bad idea. True, no one will pirate anymore, because games would be half hassed and dev studios will die one by one.

I agree, we need more games with a shoddy multiplayer mode tacked on later in development that everyone stops playing after a month. EVERY game should have that.
Can't wait for multiplayer point and click adventure games.

it's easier just to put in an internet varification

Strict shipping regulations and more coastguards

Stop making things, or give em for free - only way to stop piracy imo

or maybe some fcking decent prices THAT ARE THE SAME ALL OVER THE WORLD and if the devs fix the games and add DEMOS THEN maybe piracy will drop,online verification is retarded

Or maybe developers can make GOOD games and people will buy them

If your game, character, saves are hold on the server side like diablo 3 then there will be no more piracy. I hope someday there will be laws to kick those pirates asses hard.

Armed escorts for merchant vessels and routine patrols of the sea lanes.

arrr...

I've copied games for 20 years, and bought 400 games during that time. I'd probably not even be a gamer now, and thus wouldn't have bought anything if I didn't copy. Easily a net gain for the industry, both hardware and software.

Try before you buy, it's the only sensible thing to do when the AAA-part of the industry makes sooo much utter garbage; buggy releases, carbon-copies, chopping content for DLC, tacked on MP for SP-games, always-online DRM, marketing budgets that are so insane that they have to sell 3+ million copies just to break even, etc.

Hopefully kickstarter's here for the long haul, so ambitious games can get made without the herpaderp publishers giving them grief if they miss 'random-arbitrary-deadline-set-by-faceless-douche-in-a-suit' by a week. Or the ever-popular "if the game doesn't reach XX on metacritic you won't get your bonus". Fuck the publishers, support the devs (in general).

if you want people to respect your work and not download a illegal copy of your game do this: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-10-26-hotline-miami-creator-helps-pirates-play-his-game

No, sorry. DRM just doesn't work. It's a bad and flawed concept. When devs understand that and stop investing development time into DRM and multiplayer/social features nobody wants or needs, that is when their games will improve. People do buy good games.

WTF guys? I love multi in every game, I dont play singleplayer.