Stuff like this basically means high budget games will become always live services with intrusive checks and lots of streamed encrypted content etc. starting next year or so.
A tragic loss of consumer surplus and incredibly inefficient in terms of resources, bandwidth and people’s time.
- Grand Theft Auto V (GTA 5) for PC was cracked in April 2015, launching almost immediately—on the same day as the official PC release—by the Chinese cracking group 3DM (version 1.24)
kind of a different thing entirely to have it live-streaming on the web with no download required and no need to use sketchy software locally on your computer
Try pressing space/enter. Though to be fair, it's now on the front page and loads something like 800MB of assets, so it may be getting hugged to death.
A tragic loss of consumer surplus and incredibly inefficient in terms of resources, bandwidth and people’s time.
It’s sad but it seems inevitable at this stage.
- Grand Theft Auto V (GTA 5) for PC was cracked in April 2015, launching almost immediately—on the same day as the official PC release—by the Chinese cracking group 3DM (version 1.24)
Unfortunately the game locked up after about 2 minutes of getting in.
I wonder how many tokens and human steering it took to get this done.