I dare you: Show me a recent, good game without DRM.


Edit:
Dark Matter, please give me an example of any problems that DRM has solved, or rephrase that

"Rights of consumers have been so constrained by DRM that people are now seeking alternatives to using DRM linked technologies and products. There is very clearly opposition in the open source software movement to DRM has been about rolling out forms of software that are not covered by what we would call property rights. What we are seeing is that the industry who are pushing DRM are now finding that the resistance if we can call it that has produced a soft of alternative, so we have alternative music, new Indie labels, new downloading systems that are not linked to the music industry and equally in software we have new organisational software over and above the organisation through Microsoft as it were."

DRM has, then, caused major corporations almost as many problems as it has solved, but there could be other problems in store too. One is that it last longer than the term of copyright. Soon old rock and roll recordings will fall out of copyright protection, but your downloads of Elvis's early years will still be restricted, and for no reason.

Another problem is that exemptions from copyright for libraries, schools and hospitals which apply with physical content do not apply when content is provided on demand.

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I suppose they need to protect their intellectual property, not that it makes it any more tolerable.

I find their justification of the use of virtual drive software questionable though; can anyone explain why testing beta and development software requires a virtual drive program?


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Wow, I gotta say...I bought the game, and now that I am aware of this DRM bulls**t I am going to uninstall, clean up all of this crap, and go download cracked copy of it. DRM creates criminals, it doesn't prevent criminals. DRM is the worth technological idea to happen in the past century. It's useless, and it's only effective at hurting the honest user.

My friend has had to put the disc in a couple times, more so after the first patch, but they can play it without most of the time too I think.
Maybe Australia lucked out for once?

Ugh, I'm not even going to get started on DRM... I will say though, that the modern anti-piracy actions, of treating legitimate customers as though they are criminals... is creating criminals. All they are doing is punishing legitimate customers, while all it affects pirates, is maybe an extra couple of weeks before the software is cracked, and the protections removed/bypassed.

I'm just glad it isn't all that extreme with Hellgate. If it was more like bioshock, and it's rediculous installation/re-installation and machine limits... I wouldn't be purchasing it. :\

I think that comic sums it up pretty nicely. How they think to discourage/prevent piracy when they continually make it more attractive, even to otherwise law-abiding individuals... is beyond me.

The Situation Explained.

This one NEVER gets old, unless the game distributers make the broccoli taste better.

http://www.actiontrip.com/comics/at_comic127.phtml

In my humble opinion, the broccoli tastes worse for every year.

I'm still playing the game from the beta client, waiting for my copy to arrive in the post.

yup. The only thing DRM is doing is to expose more and more people to the hacks and piracy webs that these people visit for the first time OUT OF NECESSITY. Any technical company ruled by business major = doomed.

what happens when you buy online from EA?
I did and haven't tested SP yet to be honest.
Gonna try to see this evening when I get home to make sure, will post my findings here.

Mythor you don't need your disc for SP? Thats odd, everyone has been complaining that they do, including me.

That is so 20th century! And not just HGL... I can't understand why all the manufacturers PUSH people into downloading them from the net. even if you bought it to support them, it is often better to just download it after, so you can have more freedom, and no SecuROM and other crap.

I can't play SP without the disc in the drive....

Just be thankful they didn't use Starforce. Earlier versions of SF (and maybe current ones, too) have been known to wreak havoc on computers, affecting things other than game files. It is an intrusive copy protection scheme at best and perhaps even an invasion of privacy at worst.

Yeah, I expect EA will release a patch for a game they're not developing real soon. Hmm.

Considering the game has yet to ask me to insert the disc to play either singleplayer or multiplayer, I can't see why they'd bother checking for virtual drives. I'd be more inclined to chalk it up to yet another bug first.
I wonder if "Tag" even bothered to ask Flagship about it though.