The gawd-almighty merged DRM in Silent Hunter V thread

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Originally Posted by trenken

What im saying is I lost all my save data from SH3, CoD, and many other games, the only game that I didnt lost my save data from was the mmo, which was a DRM game.

I spent 100s of hours playing SH3, everything was lost. I do not like games that save to my HDD, hence why Im a fan of DRM. It saved my ass in guild wars. I dont know anyone that doesnt have a constant connection to the internet so that argument makes no sense to me. I built a new machine, installed the game again, right back to where I left off on the other machine. So much better than the way games used to be.

Only exceptions I think are people on dialup, which is still nuts to me, there's so few of them now that game dev's dont worry about them anymore, and thats how it should be, things need to keep moving forward. And people that use their laptops in hotels, and really, how many of them are playing SH on a laptop in a hotel room?

Originally Posted by trenken

Please list these limitations, because as far as im aware, the only one is the constant connection, and as I said in a previous post, there are so few PC gamers these days that do not have a constant connection to the internet that you just cant worry about the ones that dont anymore.

My grandmother has a PC with constant connection to the internet. I would think most PC gamers with a modern machine to even play these games would be on the net all the time. Everyone I know is.

1. Define what DRM is for us all please.

2. Define what an MMO is and what a simulation is.

3. If having a computer die and losing data is a viable reason for online saves, should not windows/linux/mac OSX info be stored on a remote server as well?

4. Do you know ALL the PC gamers in the world?

5. Myself a former submariner, does that mean that soldiers and sailors on deployment should not have the ability to play games in their off time?

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Originally Posted by ETR3(SS)

1. Define what DRM is for us all please.

2. Define what an MMO is and what a simulation is.

3. If having a computer die and losing data is a viable reason for online saves, should not windows/linux/mac OSX info be stored on a remote server as well?

4. Do you know ALL the PC gamers in the world?

5. Myself a former submariner, does that mean that soldiers and sailors on deployment should not have the ability to play games in their off time?

Please be so kind as to answer these for us.