Update me on DRM

[Skybird]

So if I should ever consider to buy a brandnew game again, while this DRM procedure is not the rule, and is unlikely (really? Something tells me the opposite...) to become one, I nevertheless have to watch out for titles eventually featuring it. Needless to say I don't like it one bit, and don'T tolerate it.

Haplo, you meant with that part on controlling second hand selling that this is not possible anymore?

[goldorak]

Originally Posted by Skybird

So if I should ever consider to buy a brandnew game again, while this DRM procedure is not the rule, and is unlikely (really? Something tells me the opposite...) to become one, I nevertheless have to watch out for titles eventually featuring it. Needless to say I don't like it one bit, and don'T tolerate it.

I already abandoned years ago the sinking ship of DRM infested games even if it meant not buying some titles I would haved loved to play. In the end its my money, and I don't throw it away to have headaches, to have my computer filled with incompatible DRM crap.
To let somebody dicated when, how and if I can play the game.
I prefer to buy games that give me no problem.

So this is what I do :

• Buy classic games on GOG.com (drm free)
• Buy second hand games on the amazon.co.uk marketplace (for those classic games that aren't in GOG.com and that have no internet DRM, so titles up to early 2000).
• Wait for an official patch to strip out DRM from games, eg : Arma II, Egosoft's titles, and so on...

Outside of these 3 points, the videogame industry get my middle finger.

Haplo, you meant with that part on controlling second hand selling that this is not possible anymore?

If you "buy" a game that requires registration/activation you can 100% kiss goodbye to being able to resell it later. Did you know that some new games even have certain parts that can be unlocked only when you install it for the first time.

I mean why do you have to support an industry that doesn't give a damn about its clients ?
For me in the end it worked, I stopped buying games outside of the policy I outlined above.

[MothBalls]

For me the bottom line is this.

The people who download the pirated software were never going to buy it in the first place, and they never will anyway. The DRM only creates headaches for the honest people who would buy the game. In the end, all they are doing is shooting themselves in the foot.

One decision like this could seriously make a difference in that entire companies future. As soon as the competition sees this, they'll exploit it and use it to their advantage, only making the situation worse for UBI.

With the economy the way it is, my guess would be they'll cut the last patch in 6-8 months, and it will end up removing the DRM. This whole thing was a bad idea from the get go.

[Wolfehunter]

Originally Posted by goldorak

I already abandoned years ago the sinking ship of DRM infested games even if it meant not buying some titles I would haved loved to play. In the end its my money, and I don't throw it away to have headaches, to have my computer filled with incompatible DRM crap.
To let somebody dicated when, how and if I can play the game.
I prefer to buy games that give me no problem.

So this is what I do :

• Buy classic games on GOG.com (drm free)
• Buy second hand games on the amazon.co.uk marketplace (for those classic games that aren't in GOG.com and that have no internet DRM, so titles up to early 2000).
• Wait for an official patch to strip out DRM from games, eg : Arma II, Egosoft's titles, and so on...

Outside of these 3 points, the videogame industry get my middle finger.



If you "buy" a game that requires registration/activation you can 100% kiss goodbye to being able to resell it later. Did you know that some new games even have certain parts that can be unlocked only when you install it for the first time.

I mean why do you have to support an industry that doesn't give a damn about its clients ?
For me in the end it worked, I stopped buying games outside of the policy I outlined above.

Skybird.. Goldorak is right. I'm doing similar system. Many publishers are draconic with there game releases. Few companies like egosoft remove there drm's after a period of time. Thats why I support ego. There the last few good PC games out.