Been out of gaming for a bit...now I'm back...what is this restrictive DRM w/ sc2??

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FearoftheNight

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Hey can someone please correct me if I am totally off base with this rant here. I haven't gamed in two or three years and I just installed sc2. Now it says battle.net is down for maintainance and I can't validate my account or play? So I pay for a game and need to play on their schedule??? What's going on here??



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Saga

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Welcome to the reason I will never own another Blizzard product.. or anything not bought off Steam - or can not be played offline, for that matter.
 

Glitchny

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Not sure how you are confused about what is happening. You can't authenticate as the servers are down, so you can't validate the account. After you register you can click "play offline" and play whenever you feel like it.
 

FearoftheNight

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Not sure how you are confused about what is happening. You can't authenticate as the servers are down, so you can't validate the account. After you register you can click "play offline" and play whenever you feel like it.

activation is a 1 time thing or what?
 

MJinZ

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Hey can someone please correct me if I am totally off base with this rant here. I haven't gamed in two or three years and I just installed sc2. Now it says battle.net is down for maintainance and I can't validate my account or play? So I pay for a game and need to play on their schedule??? What's going on here??

Just bad luck for you.

You had to have validated your account first, and then you can play offline or when Bnet is down anytime.
 

Pia

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Not sure how you are confused about what is happening. You can't authenticate as the servers are down, so you can't validate the account. After you register you can click "play offline" and play whenever you feel like it.
He doesn't sound confused. To the contrary, he understands exactly what's going on. He paid for the game and can't play it because Blizzard deliberately stopped him from playing.

FearOfTheNight: every 30 days.
 

zokudu

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Once every 7 or 8 days your required to authenticate with Blizzards servers or you cannot even play offline.
 

zokudu

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Thank you for the correction 30 days regardless you have to login on SC@ every 30 days to keep using it offline as guest. Its your choice on if thats intrusive or not.
 

BladeVenom

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You had to have validated your account first, and then you can play offline or when Bnet is down anytime.

Against who though; the game doesn't even have LAN play. Then you're stuck playing against the AI. Might as well just play solitaire.
 

simonizor

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You all blow the issue out of proportion. It's really not that big of a deal. You authenticate it online one time and then you can play it offline all you want. Even if you do have to authenticate it again in 30 days, who cares? It's not even that much of an inconvenience compared to actual DRM. What SC2 does and what Valve does is not DRM; it's just an online authentication of your ownership of the product.

For what it's worth, Valve's offline play also works perfectly fine. You just have to make sure that you're running the latest version of the game, and it will work just like it should.
 

Golgatha

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You all blow the issue out of proportion. It's really not that big of a deal. You authenticate it online one time and then you can play it offline all you want. Even if you do have to authenticate it again in 30 days, who cares? It's not even that much of an inconvenience compared to actual DRM. What SC2 does and what Valve does is not DRM; it's just an online authentication of your ownership of the product.

For what it's worth, Valve's offline play also works perfectly fine. You just have to make sure that you're running the latest version of the game, and it will work just like it should.

Both forms of DRM prevent resale, which is why they're forms of DRM. After all, the purpose of DRM is to prevent resale, as it certainly doesn't prevent piracy.
 

Pia

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You all blow the issue out of proportion. It's really not that big of a deal.
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It's not even that much of an inconvenience compared to actual DRM. What SC2 does and what Valve does is not DRM; it's just an online authentication of your ownership of the product.
Righto. Not being able to play a game you bought is now an "inconvenience", and the digital restriction management features in the game are not DRM because...?

I've been unable to play SC2 because of server issues for at least twice so far. I have watched more than ten VODs of the top players where server issues have forced a match to be interrupted, replayed or entirely cancelled.
 

Pia

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Both forms of DRM prevent resale, which is why they're forms of DRM. After all, the purpose of DRM is pushed right now is to prevent resale, as it certainly doesn't prevent piracy.
I don't disagree with you on that the primary reason current DRM gets pushed is to prevent resale. But it does have an actual meaning and it is not "Deny Resale Moneys". Factual and accurate discussion goes further towards fighting the developers' anti-customer decisions than flaming at an abbreviation. An effort to prevent resale is not always DRM, and not all DRM is bad for the gamer. Cheat detection in online multiplayer, for instance, is a pro-customer usage of DRM technology.
 

dud

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OP, whether you like/dislike or agree/disagree with torrents/USENET, etc. ... this is one reason why the latter are thriving.
 

FearoftheNight

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Just saying it's a matter of principle more than anything and a matter of annoyance...yes I can wait a few hours but should I have to with something I paid for? Imho..no.
 
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Against who though; the game doesn't even have LAN play. Then you're stuck playing against the AI. Might as well just play solitaire.

You're comparing playing a polished PC game against AI to a simple card game?

A bit exaggerated don't you think?
 

Ika

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OP, whether you like/dislike or agree/disagree with torrents/USENET, etc. ... this is one reason why the latter are thriving.

to be honest a lot of people say this, but I don't believe it's true. people who don't want to pay for a game won't pay for it.
 

KMFJD

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