Poor Former EA employee.
Wasn't that proven to be bogus?
Poor Former EA employee.
Sure, but that was just a random example. A lot of people have their updates set up on auto. Point is, there is a lot of malicious stuff people can do to you if they wanted to.
My camera for example? Maybe it has functionality inside to break down exactly 5 years after I buy it? Who knows?
Point is you'll get nowhere worrying about all these things that can happen to you. Valve have a great track record and I trust them. I also trust the police not to taze my balls when I'm walking down the street. But hey.. they could!
Sim City topped the sales charts and remains near the top. EA produced a product that people will pay money for.
Blah blah blah, DRM. Blah blah blah, always on-line game. Blah blah blah digital distribution channels.
None of that matters.
Sim City topped the sales charts and remains near the top. EA produced a product that people will pay money for. A minority may shout that SimRome is burning, but EA will be very happy fiddling. As well they should given the sales of their products.
Nobody cares about Chicken Littles because they are wrong. The video game world isn't ending because of DRM or whatever.
Video games are onanistic anyway. Claiming someone is trying to jerk you around when you are doing it to yourself seems absurd.
The point is the released a product that couldn't even function without them taking away features and REDUCING the speed....and even then you can't seem to access your saved cities from an earlier session...
proof in the ratings....SC4 versus SC2013
they had to reduce the speed, and quintuple the number of servers, because the game sold so well.
Proof that the game sold about twice as much as SC4.
I was not aware that being shot was legal, which is a pretty big difference with the point I'm making (that is, copyright laws and publishers practices are destroying the consumer rights).You could be shot tomorrow. What are you doing about that possibility?
Akka, what has Steam done in their history to lead you to have the sort of wild-eyed suspicions you currently have? [...]
If it's merely the premise that they have the power, as you seem to be indicating in your most recent post, US police can detain anyone at any time for any reason for up to 24 hours, IIRC.
It seems like you live in a state of fear.
It's, again (for what, the third, fourth times ?) a point of PRINCIPLES.They can, but again, that sounds like an unfounded fear to me. [...]
GoG mostly sell old games, that is true, though they also sold The Witcher 2 at its release, and they sell indie games.Paradox sell most of their games online. A lot of those sales come through steam. As far as I know their online store just gives you steam keys. So no, they do not have a zero-DRM policy.
I just did some googling and Stardock games can be bought on steam as well. Gog indeed appears to be fully DRM-free, but as far as I know they only sell older games. So you are 1/3 in your examples, and the third one is a bit wishy washy as the service doesn't sell new games, just old ones.
[*] Diablo III The Service is no longer optional and forces players to be online even for a single player game.
It's, again (for what, the third, fourth times ?) a point of PRINCIPLES.
As for the two others, you yet again try to tell me I'm wrong while you're the one not knowing what he's talking about : they CAN be sold THROUGH Steam, but they don't REQUIRE Steam. There is a difference between Steam as an online distributor and Steam as a DRM, and you can use the first without the second.
I have to pay them to play a game and I have to have internet to do it.
Akka, if your point is that we are all just blindly submitting to Steam without knowing they are walking all over us, many of us have plainly responded to this several times.
I know what Steam is, what it offers, and what it requires of me.
I've only had to pay for one of my Steam games actually. The rest I've snapped up in giveaways, or are free to play. So if my access was suddenly cut off, it's not like I'd have lost much that I'd actually paid for.