03-18-2010, 11:02 PM | #1 | |
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C&C 4 requires online connection
The guy that posts this message up looks like a complete idiot.
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03-19-2010, 02:15 AM | #2 |
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Meh, it'll be cracked. I win, but their customers lose.
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03-19-2010, 03:54 AM | #3 | |
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Hey look, the post has been updated, gee I wonder why they would do that...
Notice they took out any reference to DRM... Quote:
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03-19-2010, 07:12 AM | #4 |
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DRM is only problematic when it's a problem. Steam is technically a DRM, but has become accepted by it's users. You can't run the on multiple computers at the same time. You need to be connected to the internet for many games. You can't re-sell your games or your account.
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03-19-2010, 01:31 PM | #5 |
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03-20-2010, 06:06 AM | #6 | |
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And what about your back yard if you don't have a wireless connection? And what about if your net connection goes down for a few hours? And what happens if you have an unstable connection that cuts out now and then for minutes at a time? And what happens if all you have is a modem to connect? At least with steam you don't absolutely need to have a net connection to play single player games by Valve. It still tries to connect, and as far as I'm concerned it should start in offline mode and only go online when you tell it to. Also why shouldn't I be allowed to resell my games when I am done with them? After all when I am done with a DVD movie or a music CD, or a CD/DVD player, I can sell them off. Why should it be any different with a piece of software? Because they get no money from the sale? Why should they? When I sell a CD/DVD or hardware for it, the makers of those things don't get a "cut of the action". |
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03-20-2010, 03:02 PM | #7 |
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I think I actually mis-read that. Is a constant internet connection is required? Their wording is kinda funky.
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03-21-2010, 06:32 AM | #9 |
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I wish the core of the game didn't suck. I really, really had hopes for this since it's a bit different but they ruined it so, so hard.
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03-23-2010, 03:26 PM | #10 | |
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This just keeps getting better! LOL
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2...onquer-drm.ars A couple of links in the above URL Quote:
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03-23-2010, 04:55 PM | #11 |
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DRM is just one more reason gaming died for me...I despise any game that insists on tightly coupling phone home functions at any point...whether activation or just playing.
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03-23-2010, 10:39 PM | #12 | |
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I don't have a major problem with online activation for the first time you install the program on a computer... it's not THAT huge of an issue, unless you lack an internet connection. Realistically speaking, what current gamer DOESN'T have an internet connection?
However, requiring it for whenever you play it, is straight up stupid. Seriously, the ONLY way to effectively boycott this kind of crap, is simply don't buy it. You can bitch about it all you want on an internet forum, you can write hate letters to the president of the company, you can go on TV or kidnap an old lady. It won't matter worth a shit until people stop paying for games that have this kind of BS attached to it. They will sit in their corporate offices, laughing at you, while counting their money.
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03-23-2010, 11:10 PM | #13 |
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Start a facebook group and there you go.
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03-28-2010, 06:03 PM | #15 |
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This doesn't even bug me anymore, the series died the second Westwood bought them out. This is just them returning to spit in its grave.
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04-05-2010, 02:39 AM | #16 |
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don't buy it it kinda sucks ok
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04-05-2010, 02:48 AM | #17 |
This is still alive?
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04-30-2010, 02:40 PM | #18 |
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I am pretty sure red alert 3 phones home when you played it. In my ummm "modified" version, you have to disconnect the internet or it initiates the black screen of death as it tries to find papa bear.
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