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Originally Posted by Neal Stevens
Hmmm... cheap shots now, Golderak?
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You're right, I apologise.
The fact is that your "fatalism" in relation to this DRM issue sounds a lot like a copt-out.
People bitched and moaned during the SH 3 days because of Starforce. with your fatalism nothing would have changed. On the other hand the backslash made Ubisoft forget out Starforce and start experimenting with alternative ways. Some games such as HAWX and Prince of Persia came with no copy protection. Some games had their copy protection eliminated after 2 years (Chessmaster !0th edition, and SH3 just to stay in Ubisoft land).
So you see, expressing our displeasure for draconian DRM measures some times carries weight. And things change, maybe for the better maybe for the worse but they change. Instead of keeping us in a status quo were everybody loses out.
Even EA who is known for implementing draconian DRM backpedalled with Mass Effect 2 after the horribile problems of the first chapter on the pc.
So yes, if customers make their voices heard change can happen, hopefully for the better.
Remember if gamers and by association the press and influential game forums etc... give a free pass to whatever publishers come up with, things will go from bad to worse. The publishers gamer relation is not a one way relation, its a two way relationship. They make a product, and we decide wether or not its valuable enough to warrent spending our hard earned dollars/euros on it.