mr.jc1
05-10-10, 05:55 PM
Ok hey everyone, this is my first post. Just reading through other posts on here and had something on my mind. I just wish it was a reality. lol. Sorry if similar posts have existed elsewhere in this forum. This is just my two cents.
I have been waiting for this game to come out for... well pretty much since I found out it had been announced. But I've heard a lot of bad things... a lot... a whole lot. But not amongst good things too. Now I never played anything before SH3. But this to me is pretty much how SH has been since SH3. Always buggy on release. But it does get fixed, in the end, and it ends up epic, really... thats all that matters. It will get bought soon enough, perhaps even this week. :D.
The thing that DOES worry me however... is the new trend of internet based digital copy protection DRM schemes the publishers are employing more and more these days. I disagreed with this since I bought Half Life Episode 1 years ago and saw it said on the box that I had to register a STEAM account and have an internet connection to play it. It remained in the packet to this day. However, ironically, in the future I did end up using Steam anyway for a couple of games, namely - Empire Total War, but it isn't so bad I guess. You can at least launch a game without being connected (I guess this was introduced later cos I'm pretty sure this wasn't there from the beginning?) which is more useful than what I'm hearing about SH5. I am rather sad to see SH5 take the plunge this time along. I didn't realise they'd worry about it being so commercial. Actually I thought the opposite, that it has been designed for a what seems to be 'minority' fanbase these days in the simulation world, and that it 'sorts the men from the boys' lmao... so to speak. I also thought that the very nature of that would reserve the game for more along the lines of, true fans of the series who would be happy to buy the game legitimately. But anyway, still... this brings me back to what was on my mind to begin with.
Would anyone else feel that they'd rather pay an extra sum of money (realisically) for a game that ships with a dongle for copy protection? After all, if we must have DRM, this has gotta be a better solution yeah? No more CD keys for pc gamers (I've had mine 'stolen' before, prolly nabbed by some keygen, and suprise suprise, I can't play multiplayer anymore), or the need for you to even have a cd in your cd drive to play when its fully installed. It would kill all birds with one stone and ensure a secured product. I'd pay more for that... for sure. The only downside I see is the fact that you're going to lose a free USB port for the runtime duration of your game. What do you all think?
Anyways thanks for taking the time to read my post, I hope you don't feel like it has been a waste. lol. Take it easy.
JC.
I have been waiting for this game to come out for... well pretty much since I found out it had been announced. But I've heard a lot of bad things... a lot... a whole lot. But not amongst good things too. Now I never played anything before SH3. But this to me is pretty much how SH has been since SH3. Always buggy on release. But it does get fixed, in the end, and it ends up epic, really... thats all that matters. It will get bought soon enough, perhaps even this week. :D.
The thing that DOES worry me however... is the new trend of internet based digital copy protection DRM schemes the publishers are employing more and more these days. I disagreed with this since I bought Half Life Episode 1 years ago and saw it said on the box that I had to register a STEAM account and have an internet connection to play it. It remained in the packet to this day. However, ironically, in the future I did end up using Steam anyway for a couple of games, namely - Empire Total War, but it isn't so bad I guess. You can at least launch a game without being connected (I guess this was introduced later cos I'm pretty sure this wasn't there from the beginning?) which is more useful than what I'm hearing about SH5. I am rather sad to see SH5 take the plunge this time along. I didn't realise they'd worry about it being so commercial. Actually I thought the opposite, that it has been designed for a what seems to be 'minority' fanbase these days in the simulation world, and that it 'sorts the men from the boys' lmao... so to speak. I also thought that the very nature of that would reserve the game for more along the lines of, true fans of the series who would be happy to buy the game legitimately. But anyway, still... this brings me back to what was on my mind to begin with.
Would anyone else feel that they'd rather pay an extra sum of money (realisically) for a game that ships with a dongle for copy protection? After all, if we must have DRM, this has gotta be a better solution yeah? No more CD keys for pc gamers (I've had mine 'stolen' before, prolly nabbed by some keygen, and suprise suprise, I can't play multiplayer anymore), or the need for you to even have a cd in your cd drive to play when its fully installed. It would kill all birds with one stone and ensure a secured product. I'd pay more for that... for sure. The only downside I see is the fact that you're going to lose a free USB port for the runtime duration of your game. What do you all think?
Anyways thanks for taking the time to read my post, I hope you don't feel like it has been a waste. lol. Take it easy.
JC.