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24th February 2010, 02:04 PM
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With companies like Ubisoft leading the way to a future where all PC games need to be in contact with their home servers all the time, one group is being particularly harmed by this movement: soldiers stationed in remote locations. Life on deployment is hard, psychologically demanding, and often lonely for soldiers missing their loved ones and families. Gaming is a popular pastime in American bases, but DRM can take that away. The victims of PC gaming DRM: one soldier's story
Why does Ubisoft hate American troops?
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24th February 2010, 04:08 PM
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Eventually, game companies will catch the drift and stop with the nonsense.
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24th February 2010, 08:22 PM
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Reps: 3,862,590,225,492,757 (power: 3,862,590,225,496) | | Originally Posted by NiobiumTragedy  ...buy the game, download the crack.
Eventually, game companies will catch the drift and stop with the nonsense.
I do that all the time! Why on earth would I have to buy and install an 8 gigabyte game on my hard drive, and have to find the disc every time I want to play it? |
25th February 2010, 07:06 AM
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25th February 2010, 07:25 AM
|  | Not just any Willtor... The Mighty Willtor
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Reps: 63,932,760,995,062,528 (power: 63,932,760,995,078) | | Originally Posted by NiobiumTragedy Doesn't make much sense, does it? Punish the people who actually buy your product while living in the delusion that your "protection" actually works!
Yeah. Treat customers like criminals by imposing increasingly draconian restrictions while the _real_ pirates have long since cracked the software.
To be fair, even if DRM worked, if it still created the same hassle it does now I'd be opposed to it. The OP makes a pretty good reason why. As it happens, I bought Portal a good while after it came out and tried to install it but it required a network connection as part of its security. Now, in general I don't connect a computer running Windows to the internet. That's just asking for trouble. The security measures have become too much and they seriously impede usage.
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19th March 2010, 11:41 AM
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Reps: 128,556,237,087,214 (power: 128,556,237,091) | | | It's really unfair because pirates have a crack in a few days and have very little trouble, while real buying customers just get the hassle and annoyance, eventually they just don't buy PC games any more.
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