Ah, I'd forgotten how much I hate DRMs and online-activations.

Started by DontSayBanana, December 11, 2011, 11:58:01 PM

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DontSayBanana

Quick summary: Bought a copy of Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit just after last Christmas.  Was too broke to get on Xbox Live.

Fast forward: I've finally gotten myself on Xbox Live, attempt to boot up NFS, and receive a nastygram saying that "you need an online pass to access online features of the game."  No prob, I bought it new, it's got the card still in it, I put the code in.  Already activated.  My options are 1) pay another $10, effectively as a penalty for not activating my game right away, or 2) use a gimped 2-day trial pass.

Fuck you, EA.  Fuck you.
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DRM and online-activations are important. They help keep the gaming industry viable.
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I am curious as to how it will work when these online activation and DRM games stop being supported and/or their publisher goes out of business.  Is there some mechanism that will turn off the OA and DRM when they go "out of print" so to speak?
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Grey Fox

Quote from: Valmy on December 12, 2011, 10:42:01 AM
I am curious as to how it will work when these online activation and DRM games stop being supported and/or their publisher goes out of business.  Is there some mechanism that will turn off the OA and DRM when they go "out of print" so to speak?

Steam said if they ever go out of business they would release the DRMs keys/code/server. Other then that we will be fuck until GoG takes it up.
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DontSayBanana

Quote from: garbon on December 12, 2011, 09:40:22 AM
DRM and online-activations are important. They help keep the gaming industry viable.

When they fit the gameplay, sure, but requiring a player with a boxed copy to go online to activate an offline single-player campaign, no good.

I'm actually still biased against Steam for what they pulled with the Counter-Strike collection, for example.  Online activation for a game with no online features at all.
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Grey Fox

Online pass code don't exist to stop piracy or as DRM. It's to counteur Gamestop's business model fucking them up the ass.
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garbon

Quote from: DontSayBanana on December 12, 2011, 11:59:58 AM
Quote from: garbon on December 12, 2011, 09:40:22 AM
DRM and online-activations are important. They help keep the gaming industry viable.

When they fit the gameplay, sure, but requiring a player with a boxed copy to go online to activate an offline single-player campaign, no good.

I'm actually still biased against Steam for what they pulled with the Counter-Strike collection, for example.  Online activation for a game with no online features at all.

Lalalala. I'm not listening.
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Quote from: DontSayBanana on December 12, 2011, 11:59:58 AM
I'm actually still biased against Steam for what they pulled with the Counter-Strike collection, for example.  Online activation for a game with no online features at all.
They did that with Football Manager and other games. It's the way they're heading. Kind of sucks.
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Quote from: Valmy on December 12, 2011, 10:42:01 AM
I am curious as to how it will work when these online activation and DRM games stop being supported and/or their publisher goes out of business.  Is there some mechanism that will turn off the OA and DRM when they go "out of print" so to speak?

I've noticed that Developers have been removing that kind of stuff about a year after release.
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sbr

Quote from: Razgovory on December 13, 2011, 07:22:24 AM
Quote from: Valmy on December 12, 2011, 10:42:01 AM
I am curious as to how it will work when these online activation and DRM games stop being supported and/or their publisher goes out of business.  Is there some mechanism that will turn off the OA and DRM when they go "out of print" so to speak?

I've noticed that Developers have been removing that kind of stuff about a year after release.

What game other than The Witcher 2 had it removed?

Josquius

My one experience with online activation was with Alpha Protocol- where guess what, the online activation system completely didn't work!
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Razgovory

Quote from: sbr on December 13, 2011, 07:47:59 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on December 13, 2011, 07:22:24 AM
Quote from: Valmy on December 12, 2011, 10:42:01 AM
I am curious as to how it will work when these online activation and DRM games stop being supported and/or their publisher goes out of business.  Is there some mechanism that will turn off the OA and DRM when they go "out of print" so to speak?

I've noticed that Developers have been removing that kind of stuff about a year after release.

What game other than The Witcher 2 had it removed?


Anno 1404.  There were others, but I can't recall off the top of my head.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017