If you are any sort of gamer, you’ve probably heard about the “demonic” and “communist-esque” always-on products. Over the recent years, the very concept has (arguably deservedly) garnered plenty of negativity, that’s been effectively drilled into many a clueless skull across the video game fandom. See, most gamers will tell you that ‘always-on’ is a horrible, horrible thing (including most of us at AlienLion) but it seems that very few are able to explain just why. Well, let’s argue with ourselves for a moment. Is it honestly that bad? I mean, sure, it’s inconvenient in most cases, but will always-on really mean the end of gaming as a whole and bring on an age where no Internet means no video games?
CGMagazine talks to the Managing Director of GOG, Urszula Jach-Jaki to dive into all things DRM and how GOG offers a much different experience.
GOG is great but I just wish they added more current games apart from CDPR's releases.
Few publishers are willing to allow DRM free copies of their games for sale I imagine.
I wish GOG had been much stronger competition for Steam, I like their lack of DRM and collection of old games, and that they don't have the BS rejection system that Steam has for games like VNs and anime games. But Steam has more/newer games and a better interface/features that are hard to compete with.
Without internet, one GameByte writer struggled to find any decent video games to play - until he discovered DRM-free gaming.
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GOG is the best gaming platform that exist. I have 1.4tb of legally owned games installation files on a usb drive and when I want to play a game, I only need to install it. If the internet fail one day I will have a big collection of classic pc games ready to play forever.
A good option. Also a good option is launching Steam with a quick connection from your phone's hotspot function and setting Steam to offline mode.
People who bought Tron: Evolution on Steam have been locked out of their purchases unless highly specific conditions were met. This mess is courtesy of SecuROM and expired licenses but pirates were unaffected almost entirely.
Ummm just torrent the game it's still up on all the sites. Why get all upset LOL. I will never be locked out, torrent FTW it's all mine.
"As a result of legitimate buyers not being able to access what they paid for, some suggested usage of certain sites associated with flags that feature skull and crossbones."
Love what the site is suggesting, considering the pos DRM screwing over paying customers.
I love online. I would prefer an option to be offline. Simple as.
old article I think......but I hate to buy things then have someone tell me what to do with it. it is mine if I don't want to have it online the it shouldn't make me do it. if I want to microwave it then I could do that.. and so on. if I paid then it's my choice or I dont buy....
Whichever console I end up buying, I will inevitably end up with it being always connected to the internet. I just want to know that I can still play my console if I end up without internet. That's the issue here. All these articles are missing the point. Given a situation that I end up not being able to afford both, I'd then have to make a choice ... and given that I can't play my console WITHOUT the internet, the choice would be made for me: 'internet'.
FU always online. FU spycams. FU bogus DLC that should have been in the base games. FU any type of consumables. FU ads. FU all the bells and whistles being showcased as something that gamers actually give a crap about. FU DRM. FU licensing agreements. FU declaring our purchases still belong to you, and are subject to your whims. FU major game companies. THE END IS NEAR! Folks, we're going back to PCs and Indie.
" but what did you expect from a game that had 12 million pre-orders in a span of six months? Who could possibly have predicted that so many people would order and play this in such a rapid succession?"
It's called a PRE-order. These did not just all of a sudden all happen on release day. There is a clear build up to such a day.
Also the aritcle seems to focus on one game. One game is not a big deal. Every game for an entire console is a huge deal. There's a large area of the US that does not have access to high speed internet. Also, how about our military? This was posted by someone on a different board I frequent.
"In 20 years of being in the Navy, I went on 5 deployments, 3 of them post 9/11. The last 4 of them being at the point where I had some sort of internet connection to send email. The connectivity was laughable at best.
The last 2 of them, I could go and load up a web page, hit control-alt-delete, lock the computer, go for a smoke, and the page would be loading up still. I could not count the number of XBox and PS's there were on the ship, it was in the hundreds. Those guys did not have access to an internet connection and they swapped games around like they were exchanging reading material. The Exchange was cleared out of every game that was hot or not before a battle group deployed.
If XBox goes down that route, I can see them losing a huge fan base of the guys and gals in uniform overseas and/or deployed that don't have access to crap or it's worse than dial-up if they do. That passing by word of mouth might cause more damage than they can count on."
Does Microsoft really want to go with the attitude that the military is not eligible to play their games anymore? No internet? Get with the times and deal with it.