GoozerNation Senior PC Editor Phil Bruton gives you his take on the Digital Distribution craze. Is this the end of boxes?!
Filing a false DMCA claim costs nothing, requires no proof, and can destroy an indie game's launch in minutes. Fighting back can cost tens of thousands of dollars and take weeks (if you can afford it at all).
Copyright is copyright. DMCA is a good thing that protects creators IP., revenue and usage. and you can absolutely appeal a wrongful DMCA takedown. It’s happened to me. Was easily resolved.
it's a good thing, but it's also long been reported, across a variety of industries and websites, that currently the system is ripe for and full of abuses. From fair use strikes, to matters like the one reported in this article. It's clear the law needs some tooth to punish bad actors and that parameters need to be set in how reports are filed; ie human review of said content and not some AI bot false flagging stuff. As is the system is far to easily abused by those who have motive to suppress and flag content they have no business or right to.
Until there's genuine consequences for this type of abuse, it'll keep happening across all media. DMCA is in principle a good thing, but it needs an overhaul.
Steam now lets you add your hardware specs to reviews, helping players share performance details and make smarter buying decisions.
honestly it should be mandatory some of these people playing on a 10 year old laptop saying "game dont work"
The Quebec Games Celebration returns to Steam with over 300 Quebec-made games on sale from February 16 to 23, plus a new developer showcase.
Im only buying my PC games digitally on Steam or Origin these days.
I still enjoy looking at the boxes
Consoles are next... and I don't know how I feel about it. For PCs it's a simpler decision because you're going to have to install the game anyway and use up hard drive space (which you can upgrade anyway). My 360 (250 GB) would be full if I had digitally bought and installed every game I've owned.
I love physical copies due to the amount of HD space needed, and the deletion of old stuff if I wanted anything new.