EA's anti piracy screwing up PC Mass Effect.

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naznatips said:
Annoying? Sure. Going to stop me from buying it? Of course not. That would be a ridiculous reason not to purchase a game.

Naz, you know I respect you, so when I say this, know that I've thought it through very well.

 

 

I believe things like this, are a major reason PC gaming is in decline, and I predict that it will stay in decline until it is nearly obsolete.

 

 

I love PC gaming, however, the only games I can see reaching mainstream success and being worth the usually high cost of graphic intensive production are MMORPG's, and there really is only one game in that genre at this point.

 

1. Pirating

2. System requirements

3. Annoying things like this

 

 

Online games like WoW basically don't have any of those problems. You need an account to play WoW, the game is free basically, but you have to buy an account and a gamecode to initially activate it.

 

WoW can be played on virtually any computer.

 

Wow authenticates everytime you log on, and it's not a hastle.

 

Single player games are just meat on the spit for opportunistic hackers to crack and download on IRC. I mean, I can pull any game I want, for free, off IRC right now, but I won't because I have morals. Nobody else does that I know, and I know a lot of people.

 

Crytek, the first name is the epic CPU-centric FPS, dropping PC exclusivity due to piracy and poor game sales of Crysis, that's major. Epic games, and many others.

 

Also, my computer is pretty good, but it couldn't play Assassin's Creed, Mass Effect, or Crysis. I just built it about 3 years ago and I don't have the kind of money I'd need to upgrade it. 

 

Even me, the target audience for computer gaming, find it hard to play games on the PC anymore. The PC will certainly never catch the casual market with hardcore games like Crysis. 

 

That group forming up trying to save and revive PC gaming is the last glimmer of light in the twilight of a fading empire.

 

Can Spore bring the casuals back to the valley, and with them the light of hope?

 

Can Foldor continue to wax poetic about the PC gaming industry?

 

Only time will tell.

 

What say you?