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Originally Posted by Safe-Keeper
You can cry about oppression, being "treated like an enemy", and all that other rhetoric all you want, but the fact is, you don't, nor have you ever, had the right to play commercial games without paying for them, and game developers and publishers have just as much of a right to make a money as do every other industry in the world, and if people keep using their services without paying for them, what are they supposed to do, just roll over and take it? I wouldn't expect this of any other industry, so why should I from the game industry? Let's say you run a grocery store. You experience significant shoplifting, so you tell your employees to try to stroll the shelves more, and you install a video surveillance system. Is this "treating customers like ENEMIES", too? Is it "oppression"? Is it "greed"? Nope, it's your right as a store owner to protect your business from theft. Plain and simple
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The difference is that I don't have to phone up Amazon to get permission every time I want to watch a DVD on my DVD player. Likewise, they can't deny me permission to use my DVD player just because Blu-Ray is available. I wonder how long the SH V server will remain available after SH 6 (if there is one) comes out?
To use your analogy, if a shop in town required customers to be followed by a security guard at all times to 'protect their business', I'd never go in.