Glorious prophet crazy buttocks on a train: TRUTHFACT M$ buying 3rd party to show , DRM worse than stated, LIVE paywall still exists.

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makingmusic476 said:

Couple of theories about how DRM could be "worse than expected" thrown around on neogaf so far.

Single-player games could claim to require "the power of the cloud" to justify always-online DRM, ala SimCity.

A Live subscription could be required to play all games with cloud features, even if the cloud features are fakes meant to justify always-on DRM.  So a potential sub to play single-player content.

Avalanche are pretty much hinting at this. Just Cause 3 probably will be mostly single player, but they intend to use the cloud processing - I just hope (for everyone) that this is optional and not required.