Please boycot DRM games!!!

crack it ^^ I thought i heard someone cracked it so you don't need a constant internet connection....what are people going to do in a signal dead zone....@$&$

 

Having a permanent internet connection is the worst kind of DRM I can possibly think of. It would work in a multiplayer only game but never for a single player game. I would never buy any game which is that limited nomatter how good the actual game may be. Sometimes internet is just unavailable or not working properly or too slow. And it really kills the portability of a laptop. It's just wrong in every way.

Steams DRM is probably the best in my opinion. Unlimited installs and internet required only for set up. And not having to carry around discs everwhere is very convenient.

If ubisofts DRM is the future of PC gaming then the future looks very bleak indeed.

 

just wish law excisted saying that if steam shuts down they are required to give us hard copies of games....another reason why i won't buy full priced games on steam....what happens to my 80+games when it gets turned off? I still play Lords of the Realms and Half-life and commander keen and age of empires and C&C....some of those games are 1-2 decades old....i doubt steam will last 20 years!

 

Yeah. Steam seems pretty stable, but you never know. Big companies fall flat all the time. However, **supposedly** if they do close down they're supposed to unlock all the games, or offer a standalone Steam software that will allow you to play the games. Of course there will be ZERO support if that even does happen. To be honest I'm kind of worried about that too considering my vast library of games. But if something does happen, I'm sure the pirate community will be happy to help everyone out.... how ironic.

 

DRM isn't really the problem; it's been a part of console gaming since the NES days, yet nobody really complained about it until the last 10 years or so.

The real problem is bad or poorly-implemented DRM, pushed by companies like secuROM over the last decade who were more interested in making a quick buck selling a false solution to the "piracy problem" than making sure their software actually worked properly. It was a false solution, because increased piracy was due to the increase in Internet connection speed, not the inadequacy of the DRM. PC games have always used some form of copy-protection, and changing the various implementations that were used before to a few universally-used ones was only making it easier for it to be cracked, not harder.
Instead, they merely end up offering incentives for people to pirate games simply to avoid the malfunctioning or badly-concieved DRM software they'd otherwise be forced to use.

Steam and Apple's iTunes app DRM are an example of it done right. It doesn't prevent piracy, because DRM cannot, but it strongly discourages it by actually offering advantages and convenience compared to non-steam games, and the relative hassle of downloading and installing a pirated version.

Using an online account effectively as a substitute for a CD check is a great concept, but ONLY for online games. The idea of applying it to single-player games is equivalent to throwing away 30% of your sales, because those 30% have literally no choice but to use a pirated version to even be able to play the game (and even if they don't, they won;t buy it, meaning you still lose the sale).

 

Oh and I forgot to mention one of MY BIGGEST PROBLEMS WITH DRMS!....Does anyone remember the DRM that was on Microsoft’s OS discs? It had malware implemented into it...yes that’s right like 1 billion computers had malware because the DRM had malware imbedded into it. I remember reading an article of this guy every 3 years fighting the registrar at the Library of Congress. Side note, the registrar at the Library of Congress is responsible for all DRM and copyright laws. He was fighting her to get laws to be passed so he can break into the DRMs to see if they have hidden malware just like what happened with windows OS. She finally gave in last year or 2 ago at the last laws being passed. So if anyone has any good articles if he found any malware would be interesting. If you never heard this you might want to check into it. It is quite interesting...that a DRM company was secretly passing malware to everyone.....yea enough said.

malware in sony DRM
Sony DRM Rootkit - Anti-Malware Engineering Team - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

Sony BMG CD copy protection scandal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


I can't seem to find a source about the malware on the windows OS CD. Does anyone else remember this?


P.S. malware on DRMs!!! Hurray!!!

 

Don't buy them? That's one idea.

 

very true ^^...and other things :/

 

Here is another way to fight back...

DefectiveByDesign.org | The Campaign to Eliminate DRM

 

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