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Zagam
Incompertus INC Fatal Ascension
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Posted - 2011.09.23 14:18:00 -
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What gets me about Blizzard is that their EULA basically says that you are effectively renting the game, and that Blizz can cut you off whenever they want to, for whatever reason. Its like Sony's failed attempts at full-on DRM on CDs, where you could really only listen to the CDs in your car, or on a dedicated CD player. |
Zagam
Incompertus INC Fatal Ascension
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Posted - 2011.09.23 15:07:00 -
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SpaceSquirrels wrote:^ Technically thats what all software licenses say...minus of course open sourced ones. Technically you dont own your own consoles and a few other devices as well. Some phones dont apply because their under different laws.
Whats also interesting is blizzard offers bounties to people that turn in others with cracked games or that have hacked em. (And blizzard has enough man power to track people down and then proceed to sue the **** out of them...) Did that to some folks that cracked SC2 and distributed it. Yes, but Blizzard is very blatant about it, and goes crazy with online-only DRM.
DRM is not so much of a "thing" than a spectrum of things. You have completely consumer-centric DRM (input the CD key, go to town on the game), all the way to profit-centric DRM (here is your CD key, you can only play online, and can only install this 3 times before you are screwed). The best policy is the one in the middle, as it doesn't alienate consumers, yet still maintains a degree of control and prevention of pirating.
Ubisoft/EA/Blizz follows the "the consumer is screwed" model because they really don't care about the players, but rather about profit. They know people will buy their games regardless of the DRM, even if they have to supply a DNA sample each time they sign on.
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Zagam
Incompertus INC Fatal Ascension
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Posted - 2011.09.23 18:54:00 -
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Akita T wrote:I am amazed why some people don't complain you can't play EVE or WoW without being connected to the internet :P
OMG! Why Can't I play EVE without my dial-up internet??? |
Zagam
Incompertus INC Fatal Ascension
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Posted - 2011.09.23 18:55:00 -
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Deviana Sevidon wrote:Game piracy was certainly not the only concern. Cheating is another big problem.
A lot of bots, farmers or duped items are circulating in D2, so Blizzard is taking additional measures to protect legitimate players from cheating assholes.
I understand that completely. And agree completely.
What I don't understand is why internet connection to the battle.net servers is needed for playing the single-player campaign. For anything involving multi-player (even over LAN), I think you should use internet access. But for single-player campaign... not so much.
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