Ironclad Announces Torrent Division

from Sins Forums

Ironclad has just announced its plans to join the ranks of Pirate Bay and Demonoid.
"We felt it would be best to target legitimate and illegitmate customers at the same time," Ironclad's Craig Fraser states. "The lucrative advertising revenues generated on the torrent site should more than make up for our loss in pirated copies of our games, not to mention development costs are very low for the return. Should our pilot project go well, we may shift our full team to the new division, and take on a few DS games on the side." Blair Fraser adds, "We are finalizing an agreement with our partner in Novosibirsk, Russia, who will be looking after our European interests. We should have our servers active by the end of May of this year. PC development has been exciting for our team, but we felt the team was finally ready to move with the times."

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Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

It'll probably still have draconian DRM.  :thumbsdown: #:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

Gee Golly Mister!!! This is swell news!!!!!! :thumbsup:

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting Ravenholme, reply 4
April's Fool, I believe.
Oh.  :'(

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

Oh. Indeed. Sorry guys but it wasn't convincing at all. for 3 reasons.

 

1) It's not a news article.

2) It's posted in the wrong forum

3) I thought it was a random user that posted this first sicne the message looks nothing like and official announcement.

4) I've grown over the years to expect this on april fools.

Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top

I'm drunk but I gotta say this made me giggle ^^

Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top

It's a good effort, Craig, but to be honest, the Vasari Nemesis was miles better :P

Reply #9 from Sins Forums Top

I remember that terrifying Nemesis concept art 8O

Reply #10 from Sins Forums Top

Made me laugh. Torrent DRM!!!! :rofl: o_O

Reply #11 from Sins Forums Top

yes. $.10 USD for every KB transferred.

affordable transfer limits packages starting at $10:

$10-max 50kbs download 10 KBs upload

$20-max 125KBs download 30 KBs upload

$50-max 1MBs download 200 KBs upload

Reply #12 from Sins Forums Top

In all honesty though, I'd love it if there was a service in the US (there is one in Europe) that lets you pay a monthly subscription fee and then be able to download any game from their catalog. Obviously the catalog would have to be very current and extensive. I like to play lots of games, but few for a long time, and there are many games I'd like to play but don't because it gets to be an expensive habbit. A subscription service would be awesome to have. Basically like Netflix/Gamefly, only for PC games (in digital downloads) :P

Reply #15 from Sins Forums Top

So would buying from Impulse now be the morally wrong thing to do...??? X|