Something I don't understand about Assassin's Creed 2 DRM complaints

[Reasonable]

WilliamWatts said:

Reasonable said:

Sheesh.  It's obvious.  They're angry because it's unreasonable - or at least if what I read is true about the DRM it is.  There is no reason a paying customer should be forced to lose progress on a game they bought because their internet connection drops (unless of course the game is online only, D'Oh).  That's just ridiculous.  If a game released with a bug that could regularly cause lost progress/saves I'd return it immediately and demand my money back.  Putting it on the box doesn't excuse it.  By that measure any unreasonable trading would be 'okay' so long as there was some upfront warning.

It doesn't work that way.  This is plain unreasonable and should be accepted as such.

The anger is also, obviously, because people want the game but aren't willing to accept the terms, which is also annoying.

I don't want to start an arguement or anything, but I'm amazed that you don't understand this, particularly as you often come across fairly heated about stuff on the boards that's unreasonable!

 

If its unreasonable, don't buy it. If you hate X service which has exclusive rights to the iPhone but still want an iPhone why would you get angry if the terms are deemed unreasonable (36 month contract or something). Just move on and not worry about it. Its unreasonable to expect that every game or service whether you intend to pay for them or not ought to come with terms and conditions which are acceptable to you. If the DRM sucks then let them rot in it.

Oh I do.  I know a lot of people whine whine they pay anyway, but I don't.  If I feel the company has stepped over the mark I don't support it.  If I'm in the majority they feel the pain and stop, if I'm in the minority they don't and I have to accept that.

People shouldn't just accept crap, but they should be willing to put their money where there mouth is.  I simply don't buy PC games with excessive DRM and email (a well written, non-shouty one) the company to explain I think the DRM is counter productive and in addition to whatever sales they think will be lost to the pirates - who, I point out, will get ahold  of the game DRM or no DRM - they are now surely losing additional sales, which is simply foolish and only adding to their problems.

If DRM doesn't impact me as a consumer I don't mind in principle - for example I had no issue with Steam registration of Half Life 2, but I did have a fair and genuine issue with their service not being up to scratch initially.  Valve, being sensible apologiesed publicly because their service had been below acceptable levels at first.

But this is clearly DRM which steps over the mark.