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The Growing Divide Between Game Publishers & Developers
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Kristophe
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The Growing Divide Between Game Publishers & Developers
   

Though the feud between Valve and Vivendi Universal is hardly RPG-related, the underlying <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2004/11/15/commentary/game_over/column_gaming/index.htm" target="_blank">problems</a> that have been becoming public between Game Developers and Game Publishers transcend the gaming genre, as CNN's Chris Morris details...
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<br><blockquote><em>The early sales were no real surprise. Retail embargo dates for video games get broken about as often as eggs at an all-you-can-eat omelet festival.
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<br>But here's the twist. Given the game's prior problems with piracy, developer Valve built a verification system into "Half-Life 2," requiring buyers to authenticate the game online before they could play it. Anyone attempting to do so this weekend, however, was out of luck.
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<br>Vivendi Universal Games, which holds the publishing rights to "Half-Life 2," refused to allow the developer to activate purchased games, Valve charged in a news release.
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<br>"Vivendi is insisting that the game has not yet been released, and has threatened that Valve would be in violation of its contract if we activate the Half-Life 2 ... authentication servers at this time," said Valve spokesman Doug Lombardi.
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Post Tue Nov 16, 2004 3:31 pm
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Publishers of music and games are having their last hurrah. Direct download is going to bring down the publishing industry. Presently driven by huge oligopoly profits built on high barriers to entry for competitors, this parasitic bastion of waste has but a few years left for its fat-cats.

The revolutionary democratisation of the means of distribution of media culture that the internet represents has been held back, but nothing will stop it.
Post Tue Nov 16, 2004 3:37 pm
 
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Ah the smell of money.

It's fun to sit back and watch how it makes some people and companies go absolutley insane.
Post Tue Nov 16, 2004 9:25 pm
 



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