An open statement to game companies

[PrinceofWands]

And if it doesn't go your way, what then?

Then I just won't play. There are other hobbies. All that matters is holding to one's ideology, no matter what.

 

[apoppin]

Then I just won't play. There are other hobbies. All that matters is holding to one's ideology, no matter what.

So no compromise? - just like the USA Congress

What if your ideology is wrong? You "believe".

 

[PrinceofWands]

So no compromise? - just like the USA Congress

What if your ideology is wrong? You "believe".

Ideology cannot be wrong, by definition. It is always right for those that hold it. And no, I never compromise on matters of principle. Other things, sure, but never principle.

 

[apoppin]

Ideology cannot be wrong, by definition.

Perhaps that is the problem.

At any rate, there are far more serious issues in the world that people have to be concerned with than over-invasive DRM. Ubi uses their methods because they think it works for them. They have swallowed the DRM-line, hook, line and stinker. They have to justify poor sales and piracy makes the perfect scapegoat.

It is Ubi's ideology.

 

[DaveSimmons]

I understand taking a position and sticking with it, even though I'm more pragmatic about it than you.

I want to play more games than GoG.com offers, so I give Steam money and just accept that I'm possibly "renting" those games.

I paid $3 for Torchlight and have played it for 50 hours so if Steam disappeared tomorrow I wouldn't feel like I'd been ripped off. If you wait for sales you can buy (or "rent" if you prefer) many great games for $5 - 15.

Perhaps you should think of it that way -- you're not buying Fallout 3 or Dragon Age 1 with all of the DLC for $12, you're just signing up for a long term rental that might happen to last for the rest of your life.

 

[soccerballtux]

Check out Ironclad and Stardock's Sins of a Solar Empire. It's essentially DRM free. The only thing you have to do to patch it is download the Impulse program, which you don't to run to play the game, just to patch. It's completely benign.

sweet, I'll go get that off a torrent site!

 

[PrinceofWands]

I understand taking a position and sticking with it, even though I'm more pragmatic about it than you.

I want to play more games than GoG.com offers, so I give Steam money and just accept that I'm possibly "renting" those games.

I paid $3 for Torchlight and have played it for 50 hours so if Steam disappeared tomorrow I wouldn't feel like I'd been ripped off. If you wait for sales you can buy (or "rent" if you prefer) many great games for $5 - 15.

Perhaps you should think of it that way -- you're not buying Fallout 3 or Dragon Age 1 with all of the DLC for $12, you're just signing up for a long term rental that might happen to last for the rest of your life.

That's nothing more than rationalizing a situation to satiate your own desires. I realize it's fine for most people, but for idealists it's a non-starter. It's wrong (to me), and there is nothing that would allow moving past it. *shrug* Just the down side of certain personality traits.