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1. DSB
   Member

   True.

   Steam makes buying games quick and simple, it makes installing them and setting them up effortless (The automatic update system? Genius!) it adds features to your game, like the ingame messenger and multiplayer invite system, as well as showing all the relevant news about a game in the library page - All the while protecting the IPs of their vendors.

   It's close to perfection, aside from those unfortunate patches and server crashes.

   It also exposes everything that's wrong with Games for Windows Live or Ubisoft Online Services Platform. One is efficient and actually offers you a service, the others are just a pointless annoyance.

   It is worth noting that both Ubisoft and THQ have recently started cutting their DRM out of games that are directed towards the classical PC audiences - Are they slowly admitting they blew it? Hmmm.

   Posted 2 years ago #

2. itwa5me
   Member

   @dsb
   "Really, what do you expect? You think the head of Mars Incorporated spends his day toiling around the floor of a chocolate factory, meticulously balancing his next batch of Snickers and worshipping at the holy altar of chocolate? Come on, now..."

   Thats funny you mention of all companies mars, because thats precisely what Mars's first ceo did until he died and the tradition to walk the floors has been passed down.... Seriously you couldnt find a more obessed ceo than mars, they even have an intellegence service that rivals the cia.

   BUT

   Yes I do expect the ceo's of my favorite game companies to be talking about games and NOT profits. Thats something he can keep between his investors and his company, I am a customer and not concerned with how much money they make, and being as close to a world wide deppression as we are...it just makes him look like a dick to be even TALKING about charging us for something that was already free. He would be the biggest "pusher" in the world to be giving away free online play and one day you get a message saying "screw you, pay me".

   Posted 2 years ago #

3. DSB
   Member

   Really? The Mars guy did that? Goddamn. Talk about shooting myself in the foot.

   I don't blame you for enterpreting the quotes the way you do, but he didn't make them to gamers, and he didn't make them to the gaming press, he made them during his call to investors. It was money people, talking money talk.

   If you want to blame anyone for that, blame the "journalist" who decided to take it out of its proper forum. I'm pretty sure he wouldn't be making those statements to a group of passionate gamers. Although I'm honestly not sure.

   I can't get my panties in a twist over the subscription quote. He didn't say he was going to make anything subscription based that was free today, he said he'd like to. It's a bit like me saying I'd love an army of Cambodian sexslaves. It doesn't mean I'm enslaving the next hot Cambodian chick I see. That's just choosing to be offended for the sake of being offended.

   When they do introduce a CoD subscription model, I think you can pretty sure it's going to be for an MMO style product. You simply can't sell an FPS that way.

   I judge people by their actions, not their empty words, and when you do that, Kotick is easily on par with every other gaming CEO around. He doesn't create outrageous surcharges for used games, he doesn't taint games with DRM, but he does force you to pay the deluxe-edition price for his flagship products, without an alternative copy featuring less content, like the competition.

   Nobody's asking you to be thankful or even respectful, he's not doing anyone any favors, but personally I'll gladly pay an extra 10 euro to be free of shady business models and pointless malware.

   Posted 2 years ago #

4. Christopher Jack
   Member

   I think the negative reactions against DRM, is generally exaggerated, i have several pc games & have never had any problems regarding DRM & the only people i know who have, are pirates, & i know several of them, but bypassing most DRM is just normally as simple as Googling a certain torrent & following instructions, which is the main problem, people are be going to do this regardless of how impressive your protection is, most these torrent & p2p sites should either be shut down, or severely limited to what is & isn't allowed to be transfered, such as games, movies & music.

   Posted 2 years ago #

5. DSB
   Member

   I got a problem with authority as it is, and I definitely don't need a company trying to look over my shoulder. The sheer arrogance involved in having to "report" to "Daddy Microsoft" or "Daddy Ubisoft" every time I feel the audacity to play MY game, on MY computer, is nothing short of a dealbreaker for me.

   I will never give up one nanogram of my right to privacy, just so a bunch of clueless executives at a billion dollar corporation can sleep better at night.

   I don't like pirates, I think they're all hypocrites with a stupid hobby, and I think they should apply their skills to making games, rather than giving other peoples games away for free.

   Indiscriminate solutions like Ubisofts or Microsofts, or Starforce before them, which intrude on your experience, breaks your games and basically accuses you of having no personal ethics, only serve to empower actual pirates, who already see themselves as selfrighteous crusaders sticking it to The Man. This time though, The Man is actually there, and he's trespassing on consumers for no reason.

   How is that not the greatest victory, or at least the most justified sense of purpose, that's ever been handed to software pirates?

   Posted 2 years ago #

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