Sofie Van Landeghem schreef:
Apparently, the released pc version of gta IV is a real pain in the ass : http://hellforge.gameriot.com/blogs/Random-Ravings/20-Easy-Steps-to-Starting...
So they keep making it worse... I can't believe you now need a MS Live account to play a game. This kind of things is why I didn't buy Spore... as it was said to exaggerate on the DRM front... apparently GTA IV takes it to a next level. At this moment, I'm sticking to smaller, more sympathetic games. The copy protection on World of Goo was: "We are trying an experiment: World of Goo has absolutely no copy protection or DRM at all, since we want to give you (and everyone) the best experience we can. Thanks for not distributing this, and helping us make this possible!" According to their recent calculations and estimations, using actual DRM would have made no difference at all on number of sales. So again, the only people who are victim here, are the people who actually buy games... as I'm rather sure that a pirated copy doesn't force you to take a MS Live account... Am I reading to much /. ? BTW. Buying games through Steam is one of the better solutions now. Click, pay, download, play... although some manufacturers now start implementing their own DRM ON TOP OF that of Steam... I also had a lot of fun with the Penny Arcade games (that actually have native Linux versions as well). *sigh* T. -- ================================================================== Thomas Van Parys Tel:+32 (0)9 331 36 95 fax:+32 (0)9 3313809 VIB Department of Plant Systems Biology, Ghent University Technologiepark 927, 9052 Gent, BELGIUM thomas.vanparys@psb.ugent.be http://bioinformatics.psb.ugent.be ==================================================================