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Evocation said:

I'm surprised the DRM of starcraft hasn't created any stires, it is imo far worse then spore.

One player account per copy of the game is rubbish, I bought my copie, however my brother was given first go. Now I am unable to even play the game I bought with my own account. Can't play single player even.

I could understand only allowing one copy of the game to be played at a time, but not a single person able to play per game bought. I'd have to buy 4 copies. >.>

Atlest this has warned me not to bother buying anything from blizzard again.

Believe it or not, this is a good thing. Unlimited accounts prevent fair ranking. It's unfortunate for people who share one comp within a family... but with unlimited accounts people can constantly create smurfs accounts and clownstomp others. Most of the families I know with SC players, have multiple PCs and got more than 1 copy so they could play together...



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Evocation said:

I'm surprised the DRM of starcraft hasn't created any stires, it is imo far worse then spore.

In all fairness, it probably has a lot more to do with Activision than Blizzard.

Then again, it's still a huge corporate dick move, regardless of who dreamed it up.



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Evocation said:

I'm surprised the DRM of starcraft hasn't created any stires, it is imo far worse then spore.

One player account per copy of the game is rubbish, I bought my copie, however my brother was given first go. Now I am unable to even play the game I bought with my own account. Can't play single player even.

I could understand only allowing one copy of the game to be played at a time, but not a single person able to play per game bought. I'd have to buy 4 copies. >.>

Atlest this has warned me not to bother buying anything from blizzard again.

I don't understand what you're saying. Are you saying that you can't play in your account because your brother can?! There must be some confusion.

If the DRM is like Steam, then there's nothing wrong with it.



I would genuinely buy Starcraft II if I was able play with my brother with one copy.



I could be wrong, but I believe anyone can play the single player as a guest, with out the internet on. But for any multiplayer you must have a bnet account, and that account has to have starcraft 2 bought on it. I could be wrong, it is still hard finding reliable info out there. I don't really see the problem if that is the case. If you want to play online you should have to buy the game, If you just want single player, you can play single player offline.



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thranx said:

I could be wrong, but I believe anyone can play the single player as a guest, with out the internet on. But for any multiplayer you must have a bnet account, and that account has to have starcraft 2 bought on it. I could be wrong, it is still hard finding reliable info out there. I don't really see the problem if that is the case. If you want to play online you should have to buy the game, If you just want single player, you can play single player offline.


This pretty much mostly these measures were taken to counter pirates and the guys in Korea making a buttload of money on the game as a sport.  

It's far better DRM than most of the DRM out there cause you can install it on as many PCs as you want, able to play offline, all you gotta do is have your account when you do want to take it online.



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Soleron said:

I would genuinely buy Starcraft II if I was able play with my brother with one copy.


ditto. not paying $120 to play together



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I'll try to make it clear how to DRM works

You buy star-craft and are given a key. You then add this key to a battlenet account. You are only given one key, Although you do get two seven hour trails...(not enough to finish the game really)

The account with the key can play online and play multi player and have achievements from battle.net etc.

For anyone else to play online, or have access to battle.net they also need to buy the game and add the key to their account.

You can play single player, however it requires you to login with a main key holding account. You then play as a guessed.

( I'm unsure of what a guessed completely entities, I couldn't log onto my brother account and haven't bothered trying since)

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I fail to see how this is a better form of DRM, with the say spore DRM you could only install it on 5? machines... not many people I imagine have 5 computer they would be wanting to play it on themselves, and even if they updated their computer every 2 years that would still last them 10 years. And at lest anyone could play on it.

Yes you can install this on multiple computer but only one person can use it.

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I get that some people make multiple accounts, and might make one later on with once they get better to make their states better, but people that really want to probably still will.

The only battlenet system only allowed the a single key to be online at the same time. if they had done that it would have been fine. Me and my brothers could all play at the same time without buying a new copy. Anyone sharing the key for piracy would be kicked off every time someone else joined. This system in one way helps reduce piracy compared to the other.

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To put this into context of a real world thing. Just imagine you bought a book shelf. You come home but your brother has already put one of his books on it. You could to but your book on the shelf and it flies off and gives you a notice that this shelf can only be used by one person and you nor anyone else can ever use that shelf. It sucks.

 

fun rant. ^_^



Evocation said:

I'll try to make it clear how to DRM works

You buy star-craft and are given a key. You then add this key to a battlenet account. You are only given one key, Although you do get two seven hour trails...(not enough to finish the game really)

The account with the key can play online and play multi player and have achievements from battle.net etc.

For anyone else to play online, or have access to battle.net they also need to buy the game and add the key to their account.

You can play single player, however it requires you to login with a main key holding account. You then play as a guessed.

( I'm unsure of what a guessed completely entities, I couldn't log onto my brother account and haven't bothered trying since)

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I fail to see how this is a better form of DRM, with the say spore DRM you could only install it on 5? machines... not many people I imagine have 5 computer they would be wanting to play it on themselves, and even if they updated their computer every 2 years that would still last them 10 years. And at lest anyone could play on it.

Yes you can install this on multiple computer but only one person can use it.

_______________________________________________________________

I get that some people make multiple accounts, and might make one later on with once they get better to make their states better, but people that really want to probably still will.

The only battlenet system only allowed the a single key to be online at the same time. if they had done that it would have been fine. Me and my brothers could all play at the same time without buying a new copy. Anyone sharing the key for piracy would be kicked off every time someone else joined. This system in one way helps reduce piracy compared to the other.

_____________________________________________________________________

To put this into context of a real world thing. Just imagine you bought a book shelf. You come home but your brother has already put one of his books on it. You could to but your book on the shelf and it flies off and gives you a notice that this shelf can only be used by one person and you nor anyone else can ever use that shelf. It sucks.

 

fun rant. ^_^

I think Allowing only one account is stupid.it's stupid as I live with my brother. However, we share an account and the game. Yes If he loses it affects me, and if I lose it affecs him, but it's not a deal breaker for me, because the games so damn good. And if you care that much about star craft... you can buy 2
(which is what their counting on) or learn how to share. Kind of a-holish by blizzard but nothgin you can do about it


The Spore DRM has it. As Dead Space had it too... and I had to crack dead space to get it to play. After the installs were dried up.



ameratsu said:
Soleron said:

I would genuinely buy Starcraft II if I was able play with my brother with one copy.


ditto. not paying $120 to play together


Technically that's still stealing =P 



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