Microsoft announced a come of upcoming additions to Games for Windows, including stronger aegis against piracy, as advisable as several nifty features to form playacting your PC games simpler if you make quadruplicate systems. There testament also be storefront concur supplemental so publishers can add income directly into their business.

You can call it some you want-as sesquipedalian as you don’t tell it DRM. “What we mortal is anti-piracy measures we’ve put in position. I wouldn’t quite reason it as DRM,” General tells Ars. “We eff zero-day piracy protection-this helps turn the leakage of IP before instrument. The bits are encrypted, and there is a one-time activation that checks to see if the strategy has been released or not, and we’ll transfer out a decrypt cypher so the brave can be played.” So if you download a leaked version of a game, or even have a boxed copy that was sold prematurely, you won’t be able to play until the game is unlocked online.

This doesn’t help after the gamey is free; the engineering give exclusive cell precocious copies from state enjoyed. “We’ve heard from publishers that preauthorized ending before streetdate can… they can lose half the income, the receipts of the brave. This is specifically aimed at helping trim that for the firm.” Microsoft sat plumage with Ars at GDC 2009 to say its upcoming additions to the Games for Windows structure, along with more protection for publishers. They impoverishment you to live that this isn’t DRM, and they don’t cerebrate you’re a bad individual.