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[May 28, 2012, 12:46 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

GOG.com’s Trevor Longino - Diablo III style DRM could make us ‘lose a chunk of gaming history.”
Games like Diablo III with bespoke constantly online DRM could be lost to gaming culture at large if for any reason the games publisher or developer stops supporting that infrastructure. So when you lose that online connection, you lose a chunk of gaming history.

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Re: Op Ed

May 28, 2012, 14:14

jdreyer

I couldn't agree more with this sentiment. I was playing D2 earlier this year. I just got out my disk and installed. Will Blizzard still be around in 12 years for me to play D3 if I buy it today?

I have tons of old games I play on occasion: Civ II, Alpha Centauri, Quake, Master of Magic, Master of Orion, Warcraft 2, Total Annihilation, etc. etc. Even though the graphics are dated, the game play still totally holds up. It will be moreso the case when I play today's games 15 years from now.




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Comment [quote="jdreyer"May 28, 2012, 14:14]I couldn't agree more with this sentiment. I was playing D2 earlier this year. I just got out my disk and installed. Will Blizzard still be around in 12 years for me to play D3 if I buy it today? I have tons of old games I play on occasion: Civ II, Alpha Centauri, Quake, Master of Magic, Master of Orion, Warcraft 2, Total Annihilation, etc. etc. Even though the graphics are dated, the game play still totally holds up. It will be moreso the case when I play today's games 15 years from now. [/quote]

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