JerCotter7 said:
According to the link Xander gave it has been affecting paying players in the form of a bug. Simcity always online DRM caused people to lose their save files numerous times. Ubisoft DRM meant that most people who bought the games at the start couldn't play them so had to pirate the games to play them. DRM is basically shit. People find a way around them in days now so what is the point. Unless it's something like steams current DRM. |
That's the point, this is a better form of DRM compared to whatever else they've tried. They did genuinely try and get SimCity to be require online and it did for certain things, they merely removed the option to turn of some of the regional stuff to allow you to play online...
If someone's stealing your game, it's only logcial to try and do something about it. I read about how Football Manager 2014 sold considerably less than 2013 because it took a few weeks less to pirate.
I know we hear about it a lot less, but there's still a lot of it going on and it's awful for game developers and publishers. I don't think it's quite as widespread as stealing TV shows (which is again terrible), but that's probably because there are extra complications.
