Drm

TheShoe · #1 (**permalink**) 09-14-2009, 09:48 AM

I have come to personally hate drm. Mostly, it is a front to give my self a reason to pirate, but when you really think about it, it's bullshit. Honest people get punished because no one can be trusted. Sitting through those anti-piracy ads in movies are one good example. Don't have to see that shit on a pirated copy. There are a few examples of data protection that seem to be reasonable though. Although many may disagree, putting no LAN in Starcraft 2 is a great example. Who still fucking uses LANs other than pirates? If you want to play at a LAN party then you all have to log into battlenet. No big deal right? I don't really know honestly, I've never been to a LAN party.

Also, Batman Arkham asylum had some interesting issues with the leaked PC version. In the regular game, if you hold the run button you can jump off a ledge and spread your batcape and glide. In the leaked version instead of spreading arms, you just kinda flap them, then fall. Breaking the games for pirates, instead of making them less accessible to the honest folk that pay for them seems like the best way to do it (if that's even possible)

P.S. Post not edited, syntax terrible etc. sorry.

ImaBovine · #2 (**permalink**) 09-14-2009, 03:28 PM

I forget which game recently installs a rootkit when you install it. I definitely would not be installing that game.

Never been to a LAN party?? You aren't a real geek then. Hell most of the LAN parties I ever went to, we spent most of our time sharing warez and shit.

Exerias · #3 (**permalink**) 09-14-2009, 04:09 PM

I obtained a lot of stolen software from attending LAN parties as well, but that wasn't the reason I went to them.

Playing FPS's with 50 other people when everyone has a ping less than 10ms is pretty sweet. If we had to connect to a server is some other state or country, it would have been less of a frag-fest and more like a lag-fest.

Ganthor · #4 (**permalink**) 09-15-2009, 12:47 PM

Typically the point of the LAN party is to be in the same room as who you are playing with and to have next to nothing for lag. If you had to connect to a server then there wouldn't be as much of a point.

One thing I noticed in Madden 10 on Xbox 360 is that they added an activation for the online franchise mode, you have to type in a code found on your instruction manual to unlock it. This appears to be their way of limiting the small percentage of the xbox live population that is playing a burned copy of the game. Hopefully this doesn't catch on too much, it could be quite an inconvenience to me.

TheShoe · #5 (**permalink**) 09-15-2009, 07:46 PM

I think entering the code is more for restricting re-sale of the game maybe?