DRM. Ya, we all hate it as it serves absolutely no purpose at all other than to piss of end users. We all know the claim by now. Somehow this digital cancer helps fight piracy. What the companies who employ it don’t really know however is that it actually pushed more people to piracy. It’s not rocket science people. A couple of weeks ago when Ubisoft’s genius (sarcasm) idea to require all future games to require “always on” internet...
Well wouldn’t this be a little drama — Has Steam publicly denounced Ubisoft’s draconian DRM behind the scenes by removing Ubi’s most current titles (Assassins Creed and Silent Hunter V in parctiular) for download? Within the last day, Steam users who have tried to purchase and download both AC 2 and SH V are being greated with “Sorry! An error was encountered while processing your request: This item is currently unavailable in you...
Like DRM? Of course not. No one does. Yet somehow it supposedly makes the world a better place. The last couple of years, especially the last year in particular, game developers have been downright nazi-like in their determination and affinity for this digital cancer that plagues so many digitized services and devices. EA’s SecuROM DRM in particular is a pretty big PITA as it it requires a net connection to “validate” your game each and every time you...
Simply put: DRM sucks. It’s bad for consumers and it’s bad for CS at the companies that decide to use it. The only people who are harmed are the very people the companies claim to protect. This time, it wasn’t another Ubisoft snafu (they had their stint over the weekend). Instead, just as Ubisoft begins to rub the weekend hangover junk out of their eyes, EA figures it’s time to have a miniature catastrophe of their own. Yes, EA’s DRM...
That old saying “what kool aid are you drinking” couldn’t be any more perfect in the situation involving Ubisoft and their new “always on” DRM. We’ve already ranted about it several times before for it’s awful implementaion and methodology. Yesterday we found out just how much it sucks when a game that requires a live connection to a remote server has said server go down…for hours on end. Common sense would have the company...
