John Tiller Software is born--Digital Download

[TheBigRedOne]

No, I do not think that is so. Only like there are two cars now and you can drive them both at the same time. We can challenge the wife to sit down to have play a game against each other, one on each of the two PC's you both own in the house.

Like that will ever happen. But it could now with two activations allowed per purchase. Where else do you get a two for one deal like this?

In pretty much any game you can buy with a disc, or a variety of DD games I've seen, and a few I've used. The ability to have one game on more than one computer isn't exactly a novel concept, and it surprised me that this was the initial way JT opted to roll this out. To his credit, he realized quickly the waves it was creating and adjusted on the fly. Kudos to him and his team for a very sound decision.

The PzC game doesn't impact me, I only play SB, but future releases from the SB realm will have the same DRM technology. As long as the 2 computer per game continues I think that most folks will be happy. I've seen some fairly irrational postings over the past few days, ones that just make me shake my head. You'll never please everyone with a major change like this, but I think that there is a very small segment of the community that has some strange fear of the the DRM. I've been burned before by it, namely a whole lot of music I bought from Sony Connect that I still need to burn onto a disc and re-import to lose the DRM, but some folks really have gone off the deep end.

For me, his change to distributing DD on his own was a smart business decision. He no longer has to share the profits with anyone, he completely eliminates the cost of production and purchsase of the discs, artwork, jewel cases and the like. All he's got now is server space somewhere, which probably isn't free, but he's eliminated pretty much all of his cost for having to maintain an inventory and pay for shipping. Sound business model to improve the profit margin.