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What about used games?
And mandatory installs?
Sarcasm. Steam IS a giant DRM, one that spies not only on what games you play, but also what you do in them, that requires you to register games online, and although you can (after registering once) play games in offline mode, the offline mode sometimes fails so that you have to log onto the steam network periodically anyway.
Unfortunatelly, most people really don't seem to mind. This generation of consoles would have gotten away with hideous DRM too, if Sony had just followed suit. On that matter, no need to praise Sony too much; it's a brilliant marketing move on their part, they didn't leave DRM out because they're just so much more noble and moral.
Also, something that I think hasn't been mentioned about DRM yet... DRM is a symptom, not a cause: Console piratism is, as far as I know, a relatively small problem currently, but companies are rightly afraid that it will grow bigger. On PCs, of course, piratism is rampant.
So, while I hate and boycott DRM, hating the companies for implementing it as money-grubbing, immoral corporate donkeys is incredibly hypocritical. It's your own ducking fault, stop pirating games.
And mandatory installs?
Sarcasm. Steam IS a giant DRM, one that spies not only on what games you play, but also what you do in them, that requires you to register games online, and although you can (after registering once) play games in offline mode, the offline mode sometimes fails so that you have to log onto the steam network periodically anyway.
Unfortunatelly, most people really don't seem to mind. This generation of consoles would have gotten away with hideous DRM too, if Sony had just followed suit. On that matter, no need to praise Sony too much; it's a brilliant marketing move on their part, they didn't leave DRM out because they're just so much more noble and moral.
Also, something that I think hasn't been mentioned about DRM yet... DRM is a symptom, not a cause: Console piratism is, as far as I know, a relatively small problem currently, but companies are rightly afraid that it will grow bigger. On PCs, of course, piratism is rampant.
So, while I hate and boycott DRM, hating the companies for implementing it as money-grubbing, immoral corporate donkeys is incredibly hypocritical. It's your own ducking fault, stop pirating games.
