With this interface, I can't tell whether to click on the "quote" button above or below the post I'm trying to reply to without scrolling to the top or bottom of the page. Yuck.
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twesterm said: Wow, how my little thread has grown (now of I only had the time read the 70 or so replies I've missed)! Anyways, copy protection was a huge problem in 1994, so much so that they had something even worse than the dreade DRM. Every time you started your game they made you look up a specific page, paragraph, and character in the manuel or ask you some very specific question about something in the manual. That was far worse than any DRM since this was in the days before the internet and you couldn't just look it up. If you lost your manual you were screwed. |
Oh I remember those days.. I would actually prefer that kind of copy protection to this DRM.
1) Nothing extra gets installed onto my machine
2) I can do whatever I want to my machine and the game will still run
3) I don't have to be online to install the game. (Does SecuROM require you to be online to install or play? I haven't received my copy yet)
4) I don't have to worry about the company shutting down or no longer supporting the game.
Actually, if it's going to require you to be online anyway, why don't they just require a login using a cd key to play the game? This seems more reasonable and less intrusive to me.
