Secure PC gaming could bring prices down - Taylor

[BenKenobi88]

Katilian said:

BenKenobi88 said:
I honestly don't care about DRM with games. Yeah, Bioshock's system required that you inform the server or whatever of any uninstalling and whatnot or else your game breaks is a bit annoying...but once you go through all that, you play the game.

It's not like music where one of the main things is sharing music on a CD, PC, MP3 player...you want your music portable.

For a PC game, I really don't care...I go through the DRM or whatever process once, and then I play the game...what difference does it really make? I'm not going to share Bioshock with a friend, as that'd be illegal...and as long as it's not too much of a hassle to install/uninstall, I don't see the problem.

So what happens when Steam is down? Shame that the store bought copy of Bioshock requires internet access to play offline.

What happens if Valve disappears (for whatever reason) and so does the activation server? Shame if you want to play it again in 5-10 years time.

What happens if Valve decides that you've violated their terms of agreement? Shame that you can't play ANY of your games anymore (even the single player ones).

What about the ability to resell games?

You mention portability, what if I'm on the move and purchase a new game? I can't guarentee I'll have access to the internet.

Actually I wasn't even talking about Steam, but that fits in with this I guess.

A) You can play off-line games with Steam while...off-line. I forget why that works, I guess if they've been activated once, you're good?

B) If Valve "suddenly disappears," people could hack it and make it free I'm sure...with nobody to control Steam, it'd go down eventually.

C) Resell games? Who resells PC games, honestly. You can barely return a PC game to a store without a million questions.

D) I'm saying DRM is BAD for portability. It's bad for music, because music should be portable. DRM is fine with me for PC games though...and like I said, I'm pretty sure you can buy a Valve game in a store, pop it in, and play it without Steam...I think.