StarCraft II Gets DRM

[mindcycle]

Originally posted by: Coldkilla
It wont stop piracy, but it'll take at least a few days/weeks for the hackers to crack it.

Possibly, but it's unlikely given that most games appear the day of or even before the official release. The only DRM solutions that have lasted more than a day or two are the extremely draconian ones that cause massive issues for the people who actually buy the game.

The activation will take 30 seconds to activate.

If you have an internet connection and if the authentication servers aren't overloaded or something like that, then sure it won't be a problem. The issue I have with it is that it's not needed and is bound to cause problems for someone, even if that's less than 1% of the user base. I have much more respect for a company that trusts their customers will buy their game (like Stardock or Bioware). A pirate is not a customer, so they don't worry about them. Online auth says right off the bat that they don't trust you, not to mention that they want to have full control over the product you purchased by requiring you to register an account with them. That's not a mentality I want to support.

 

[fleabag]

If I even CARE to want to play this game, it's going to be pirated BIG TIME. That's right, I bought the game and the expansion pack in 1998 with no strings attached, NOTHING but now they want me to go through all this bullshit in order to play their game? NO THANKS! Kiss my ass Activision, I'm sorry that they bought blizzard.. RIP

 

[Sylvanas]

Originally posted by: fleabag
If I even CARE to want to play this game, it's going to be pirated BIG TIME. That's right, I bought the game and the expansion pack in 1998 with no strings attached, NOTHING but now they want me to go through all this bullshit in order to play their game? NO THANKS! Kiss my ass Activision, I'm sorry that they bought blizzard.. RIP

Yeah it's so hard to click validate once when u install........

/sarcasm.

 

[shortylickens]

Originally posted by: mindcycle

If you have an internet connection and if the authentication servers aren't overloaded or something like that, then sure it won't be a problem. The issue I have with it is that it's not needed and is bound to cause problems for someone, even if that's less than 1% of the user base. I have much more respect for a company that trusts their customers will buy their game (like Stardock or Bioware). A pirate is not a customer, so they don't worry about them. Online auth says right off the bat that they don't trust you, not to mention that they want to have full control over the product you purchased by requiring you to register an account with them. That's not a mentality I want to support.

This.

DRM only hurts paying customers. And I dont want to support any company (even Blizzard) who treats me like an unwanted stepchild when I give them my money. Its a bad habit to get into. The only reason companies use DRM is because we let them get away with it. If we all just outright refused to buy DRM-laden games that shit would stop real quick.
Of course, that would never happen so.........

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: SunnyD

Originally posted by: Slick5150
Yeah, I don't see why this would be any real concern to anyone. Its unobtrusive.

Two words:

NO RESALE.

While I kind of figured that it would have to be attached to a battle.net account, it's now confirmed. And with the online install option, that definitely confirms the fact that once you're done with the game, you have lost your right of first-sale. It also means you won't be hopping over to FS/FT to buy a used copy at a cheaper price from someone who didn't like the game, unless you want to go all in and buy their battle.net account too...

... but wait, you can't! Because that's going to be against Blizzards ToS. Sure, it's against the ToS to sell a WoW account and people still do it - but when they force people to use battle.net to link up their WoW accounts, those that want to try Starcraft II and/or Diablo 3 (you can rest assured these same systems will be used in Diablo 3!), well all of a sudden you've linked one of these games that you find you don't want to your battle.net account, and oh... heavens... you can't get rid of it without selling off your precious WoW account too!

To some, this is little more than an inconvenience. To others, they're going to say "Well you should have done your research before you bought the game, so tough shit." To the latter group, are you going to say the same thing when you have <insert various random political agenda here> shoved down your throat that you don't agree with?

This is Activision (not likely Blizzard themselves) going in for the kill. If there was ANYTHING any producer/publisher ever would want, it would be to kill the used game market. Hell, look at most publishers and how much that absolutely loathe GameStop.

It sucks to be a consumer in this day and age.

but why would anyone want to resell SC2? is going to be the best game ever and you'd be retarded to not like it! :roll:

 

[golem]

Originally posted by: mindcycle

I was replying to your post where you asked people to wake up and realize that DRM is somehow a necessity. I then asked you to provide the title of a game where DRM has succeeded in stopping piracy.

No one thinks DRM stops piracy, that's probably impossible. The best the developers can hope for is that it slows it down and gets them a few more sales. Whether this works or not? Who knows? You would have to sell 2 similiar games, one with DRM and one without, then compare the data. Not only sales, but also the cost data to support the pirated copies via tech support or servers or whatever. Not really possible.

I could use your paragraph and replace the word DRM with Laws. Have laws stopped crime? No, have they reduced it? Probably. Are they a necessity? Most of them, yes.

 

[fleabag]

Originally posted by: Sylvanas

Originally posted by: fleabag
If I even CARE to want to play this game, it's going to be pirated BIG TIME. That's right, I bought the game and the expansion pack in 1998 with no strings attached, NOTHING but now they want me to go through all this bullshit in order to play their game? NO THANKS! Kiss my ass Activision, I'm sorry that they bought blizzard.. RIP

Yeah it's so hard to click validate once when u install........

/sarcasm.

Yeah, so easy when they don't have those servers to validate the installation. I like to install old software, why should I have to hack the software in order to get it to do what I want?