Crysis Warhead crippled with DRM

[TechBoyJK]

Originally posted by: Maximilian

Originally posted by: jonks

Originally posted by: Maximilian
Yes, for those daft or short sighted enough to buy this crap are funding the death of pc gaming. Buy the game for a console or pirate it or dont play it at all.

Its lucky not everyone is like you, not everyone will happily lap up the shit EA shovels.

So if absolutely NO ONE bought Warhead, and Crytek decided to go straight to console with Crysis 2, and made no more PC versions, how does that help PC gaming?

It sends a message that restrictive DRM will not be tolerated. Besides theres nothing wrong with consoles, im thinking of gaming as a whole, consoles, pc's whatever. PC gaming will never die, not with blizzard, valve etc around.

I for one support the technology that Crytek is creating. I love the Sandbox, and I look forward to what comes of it. I'm not a fan of DRM, but the game was only $30, and it included both the game and Crysis Wars. I'm enjoying both greatly. Considering I earn close to $30 an hour, fretting over this much money because of DRM seems childish.

Fact, the DRM issue actually convinced my friend to pony up the $30 for the game, rather than spending a few hours trying to download a hack, or trying to convince me to let him borrow the game every now and then. He's all proud now too that he has HIS own copy.

 

[Maximilian]

Originally posted by: TechBoyJK

Originally posted by: Maximilian

Originally posted by: jonks

Originally posted by: Maximilian
Yes, for those daft or short sighted enough to buy this crap are funding the death of pc gaming. Buy the game for a console or pirate it or dont play it at all.

Its lucky not everyone is like you, not everyone will happily lap up the shit EA shovels.

So if absolutely NO ONE bought Warhead, and Crytek decided to go straight to console with Crysis 2, and made no more PC versions, how does that help PC gaming?

It sends a message that restrictive DRM will not be tolerated. Besides theres nothing wrong with consoles, im thinking of gaming as a whole, consoles, pc's whatever. PC gaming will never die, not with blizzard, valve etc around.

I for one support the technology that Crytek is creating. I love the Sandbox, and I look forward to what comes of it. I'm not a fan of DRM, but the game was only $30, and it included both the game and Crysis Wars. I'm enjoying both greatly. Considering I earn close to $30 an hour, fretting over this much money because of DRM seems childish.

Fact, the DRM issue actually convinced my friend to pony up the $30 for the game, rather than spending a few hours trying to download a hack, or trying to convince me to let him borrow the game every now and then. He's all proud now too that he has HIS own copy.

You just dont get it do you... nothing to do with the money :roll:

 

[HumblePie]

Originally posted by: jonks

Originally posted by: Maximilian
Yes, for those daft or short sighted enough to buy this crap are funding the death of pc gaming. Buy the game for a console or pirate it or dont play it at all.

Its lucky not everyone is like you, not everyone will happily lap up the shit EA shovels.

So if absolutely NO ONE bought Warhead, and Crytek decided to go straight to console with Crysis 2, and made no more PC versions, how does that help PC gaming?

Simple you DO NOT buy games with DRM and buy games without. That's how you send the message. They will see that games with DRM = low sales and games without DRM = high sales.

Doesn't take a financial analyst genius to figure that one out.

Also, don't buy consoles or at least, console FPS. I know I don't. Personally, I buy only those games without DRM or if they are so old and thus cheap, that they are no longer looking at the DRM, pirating issue for that game anymore. Like when I bought bioshock recently for $10.

 

[jonks]

Originally posted by: Maximilian

Originally posted by: jonks

Originally posted by: Maximilian
Yes, for those daft or short sighted enough to buy this crap are funding the death of pc gaming. Buy the game for a console or pirate it or dont play it at all.

Its lucky not everyone is like you, not everyone will happily lap up the shit EA shovels.

So if absolutely NO ONE bought Warhead, and Crytek decided to go straight to console with Crysis 2, and made no more PC versions, how does that help PC gaming?

It sends a message that restrictive DRM will not be tolerated. Besides theres nothing wrong with consoles, im thinking of gaming as a whole, consoles, pc's whatever. PC gaming will never die, not with blizzard, valve etc around.

You don't answer my question though. You say anyone buying a game with DRM is funding the death of PC gaming, despite strong sales for titles even containing DRM. I point out not buying DRM titles can drive developers completely off the PC platform as Crytek has already threatened. How does buying DRM games kill the industry?

As to whether or not there's anything "wrong" with consoles, I don't own any and don't plan on buying any. Consoles may be fine but we're talking about PC gaming. And if all PC gaming will have left is WoW, it might as well be dead. Valve is quite happy releasing everything on consoles now too. If they released a pc game with DRM and no one bought it they'd say 'hell with it' and just stick with consoles.

I don't like DRM and find it a backwards strategy, but it has zero effect on what games I purchase. I've never had one conflict with installing too often or upgrading hardware and then my 3 year old game won't run or whatever. These are problems well outside the norm, and while they should be addressed for the consumers that have them, I find getting riled up over it not worth missing out on the game.