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	[quote name="Qt3 Historian"]<i>Setting: The rookie finds himself in a <a href="http://www.quartertothree.com/game-talk/showthread.php?t=46451">thread</a> discussing noted maker-of-games-I'll-never-play cliffski's decision to drop DRM as a result of a conversation with pirates and others. The decision is made to embark on the sort of analogy that will instantly endear him to the crowd, namely a terrible one. Let's see what happens!</i> [quote name="<a href="http://www.quartertothree.com/game-talk/showpost.php?p=1439948&postcount=200">Therlun</a>"]Intentionally or not the project certainly has become an extremely cost efficient publicity event. What just occurred to me was that the whole topic is like following a war... I'm interested in history and current politics and one thing I really dislike is that I wont see how the many things in the world will develop (with a limited lifetime and all...). Not to mention the very limited information flow. I weep a tear about all the current information that will only become available in a hundred years or so. I will however be able so see how this piracy conflict develops. It has many traits of a normal war, minus all the nasty death and gore stuff. It has distinctive but somewhat undefined factions (and cowardly neutrals :P), fanatics and "battles". I dont mean the worthless comment threads where said fanatics flame each other, but things like the proposed DRM for Spore and (I believe) Mass Effect PC, which produced and outcry and was scaled down... to a level that would have generated at least some outcry itself had it not been a scaled down version of much more drastic measures. Planned decision or not? Worth a discussion in itself. I certainly can relate to such hypothetical strategies more than to some news report about the conquest of some harbour city I never heard of, in a nation that most people probably knew nothing about before it was mentioned in the news. I live in interesting times, and I'm happy it is that way, because "my" wars and conflicts, their results and effects develop at such a pace that I can experience them![/quote] That is how epitaphs for forums are written. Are we approaching the end times of qt3 as experts believe? [/quote]