Parallax Abstraction wrote on Mar 22, 2011, 15:11:
Does the PC version still prompt you to Press Start and have virtually no graphical options?

Techie714 © wrote on Mar 22, 2011, 14:38:
So this wont work with Battlefield:BC2 but it will work in TF2, right?

J wrote on Mar 22, 2011, 14:33:
On the screenshots front, I just noticed that if you take a screenshot in the game then Steam uses it as a background picture when you select the game

Mashiki Amiketo wrote on Mar 22, 2011, 13:06:
Oh ... look. Yet another 'new internet thing' which will require bandwidth. Too bad places like Canada, and now in the US(AT&T and Charter) are putting heavy, punitive bandwidth caps in place.

Maybe steam should get involved in this.

Jerykk wrote on Mar 21, 2011, 02:31:
If that were not the case, all the games that used Starforce (which took a year to crack) and UbiDRM (took a month to crack) would have presumably sold a lot more than they did.

avianflu wrote on Mar 21, 2011, 08:27:
Game companies frequently infrequently remove the software copy protection in a patch after a game has been out for a year or so and/or released in a GOTY edition (often with no fanfare at all the protection is removed).

The point is that software copy protection is all about protecting sales of newly released software because that is when unit sales are greatest.

entr0py wrote on Mar 21, 2011, 00:15:
These release date checks are set to unlock at midnight LOCAL time; so it unlocks in New Zealand 24 hours before it unlocks in Hawaii.

Ashley wrote on Mar 20, 2011, 23:15:
DRM is fine with me as long as...

1. It does not run when I am not playing the game.

2. It does not collect demographic info about me (even if they swear it's anonymous)

3. It does not look at anything else on my PC besides the game that it is for and only then to verify that it is a legitimately purchased copy.

I have never found DRM from a major publisher that comes close to meeting those criteria.

ochentay4 wrote on Mar 17, 2011, 14:08:

necrosis wrote on Mar 17, 2011, 14:04:

Verno wrote on Mar 17, 2011, 14:03:
One time activation for offline play, basically like most games these days.

Wish they would do that for AC2. Their servers fucked up last week and people could not play for 2 days.

Brotherhood DRM scheme was exported to AC2 also. Now AC2 needs online One time activation for offline play. Please correct me if im wrong

Verno wrote on Mar 17, 2011, 14:03:
One time activation for offline play, basically like most games these days.

Blue wrote on Mar 16, 2011, 14:56:
Oops, formatting error. Sorry about that.

nin wrote on Mar 15, 2011, 22:02:

That might have been my link, I think. Reading there and IO9 is downright painful these days. It's like they designed it for an ipad, and fuck everyone else.

"Of course the people who make the game vote for their own game. That's how it works in the Oscars, that's how it works in the Grammy's and why I'm betting that Barack Obama voted for himself in the last election."

Ruffiana wrote on Mar 14, 2011, 13:31:
I'm sure that on some forums somewhere, there are people bitching about Square really doing this out of pure greed or laziness.

The Half Elf wrote on Mar 14, 2011, 00:27:
Also how exactly is this a sequel to Dragon Age Origins? Game starts off in roughly the time frame Origins does, and why is Flemmeth this Leather chick with JRPG hair, and then when you meet her in Origins she's this little crazy homeless looking women. And I won't bring up Sten's people.

The Half Elf wrote on Mar 11, 2011, 16:52:
What was really awesome is living on the East Coast and getting the game at midnight and going home and finding your game wouldn't unlock until midnight PST.