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Originally Posted by willravel
So you're worried about them forcing a system upon us to prevent piracy and then not only abandoning that system but still requiring authentication? Doesn't that strike you as somewhat unheard of in the gaming world? MSN Music, sure, but that was a rather massive failure due to MS making virtually every mistake possible for online music. Unless something amazingly unexpected happens, ME and Spore are not likely to be failures.
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will it doesn't matter what the content is, music, game, book, movie. this is the CRUX of why DRM is problematic. If you buy a music, game, book, movie, you own a physical representation of it WITH NO LIMITATION to how or where you use it, it exists for all intrinsic purposes, forever.
While MMMOs have come and gone, ala Earth & Beyond, Gods & Heros, they have an intrinsic online requirement to the game.
I purchase games via Steam a download client created by Valve the makers of Half-Life and there challenges to the fact that it authenticates each and everytime I want to play a game. I was playing an older game the other day Call of Duty: United Offensive and I expect to only play that for a certain time. Yet Call of Duty 4, I bought traditionally box from a store and have it sitting on my desk. To play it I must have the CD in the drive. I could have downloaded it via Steam and they would authenticate me online.
If Steam goes away, I don't get to play it anymore.
While it may not be the case, there are business decisions that game companies make in order to stay profitable. It doesn't matter to them if you still like to play the game or not, they upkeep for them is a cost and they may not necessarily be making a monthly subscription profit from you, only the initial outlay for the game.
I have a copy of Bioshock which upon installing connects to authenticate and download a patch. For whatever reason, I cannot authenticate, and thus I cannot download the patch. This now required me to contact support and go back and forth with them until we resolved it.
Had I bought the Xbox360 version, I drop in the disc and start playing. Instead I had to spend several hours troubleshooting instead of playing. I don't know about how much free time you have, but mine is finite and very precious to me.
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