99.8% of Gamers Don't Care About DRM, Says EA

Baliame · Post by **Baliame** » October 17th, 2008, 13:37

Shada wrote:Yeah, never had any trouble with Starforce games. Never knew anyone who did, either. Just lots of internet rage.

Starforce made one of my discs blow up inside my optical drive. Or was that playing it 4 days straight?

Post by **Joose** » October 19th, 2008, 22:12

Shada wrote:But I've not actually seen or heard enough cases of "legitimate buyers hurt" to get all up in arms about it.

Ive never had any DRM stuff seriously fuck things up for me, but I have had a great many games perform better after I had patched out the copy protection so I can play without the disc.

Its why I like Steam so much: most of the advantages of pirating the game (I can buy things when I like without having to go to the shops, I don't need to scramble about for old discs, I dont have to worry about losing/breaking the disc) plus most of the advantages of legitimate buying (no fucking about with cracks, actually supporting the game industry, proper support, easyer multiplayer). More Steam games please.

Post by **deject** » October 19th, 2008, 22:53

Joose wrote:
Ive never had any DRM stuff seriously fuck things up for me, but I have had a great many games perform better after I had patched out the copy protection so I can play without the disc.

Its why I like Steam so much: most of the advantages of pirating the game (I can buy things when I like without having to go to the shops, I don't need to scramble about for old discs, I dont have to worry about losing/breaking the disc) plus most of the advantages of legitimate buying (no fucking about with cracks, actually supporting the game industry, proper support, easyer multiplayer). More Steam games please.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » October 19th, 2008, 22:55

Joose wrote:I have had a great many games perform better after I had patched out the copy protection so I can play without the disc.

Its why I like Steam so much: most of the advantages of pirating the game (I can buy things when I like without having to go to the shops, I don't need to scramble about for old discs, I dont have to worry about losing/breaking the disc) plus most of the advantages of legitimate buying (no fucking about with cracks, actually supporting the game industry, proper support, easyer multiplayer). More Steam games please.

so fucking hard.

to the point that I own a lot of duplicates through steam, which while DRM-tastic, does the job well and they treat you like a customer, not a criminal.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » October 22nd, 2008, 0:09

Of course, the other problem is that sometimes massively overkill DRM does what's really expected of it - Gets the game to the release date without a leak, which means first day(s) sales aren't gonna be FAIL due to the game being pirated to fuck so publishers are happy.

Which is what's happened with FarCry 2, The PC version is as yet uncracked, and is released in merka. so that'll go into the stats as money earned by nasty drm

Post by **Dog Pants** » October 22nd, 2008, 7:04

Although it does have the same thing happening on Amazon of everyone giving it one star and saying how they won't play it. Which, considering they're supposed to be customer reviews isn't really accurate.

buzzmong · Post by **buzzmong** » October 22nd, 2008, 7:29

Good point Pants, but at least they've now done it to both Spore and FC2, so if they continue to boycott products and give negative reviews, EA should take note.

Post by **FatherJack** » October 22nd, 2008, 8:41

They did take sort of note with Spore, and adjusted the/removed the reinstall protection.

I basically can' t play Starforce games at all, and also had an issue with an optical drive on my Dad's computer.

Shada · Post by **Shada** » October 22nd, 2008, 10:18

Posts like this make me laugh:

someone on the ubisoft forum wrote:Well that settles it then. I'm NOT BUYING FC2 anymore.

Which is REALLY a big dissapointment for me, i'm seriously sad over this. I really wanted to get it, but i'll purchase another DRM activation limited game only as soon as cows can fly and hell freezes over.

I WILL NOT RENT YOUR GAME, UBISOFT!!
I intended on buying it, but DRM looses you customers.

-btw i especially registered to say this; it's thát important to me.-

Goodbye Ubisoft.
May your (and any other dev's) activation limits rest in digital hell.

Post by **HereComesPete** » October 22nd, 2008, 12:15

He's so nerd rage angry he put an accent on the word that! That's quite impressive.