GameZone writes, "Electronic Arts has reached out to us to clarify some confusion stemming from a game-breaking bug in Darkspore that resulted in players unable to log-in to the game and its eventual removal from the Steam store."
Darkspore is back on Steam, following its recent removal from the digital distribution service over service issues.
In the wake of the game's removal from Steam, developer Maxis has denied claims that Darkspore has been abandoned, instead announcing that a persistent play-denying issue has been fixed after months of gamer complaints.
You know how a while ago warnings were issued about always-on DRM games? Games like Diablo III, SimCity and for a short while Miner Wars 2081, fall into the category of games that will cease to exist once the master servers shutdown for good. You get an example of how this will work with the Darkspore, which is no longer receiving support, and no longer available for digital purchase from Steam.
The benefits of DRM...Wow.
EA is becoming a tragedy to the gaming community.
Simcity 5 is next, people. I expect those servers to shutdown within late 2015.
Well people are going to have to start weighing whether Online only games are for them are not.
Keep in mind I WHOLY agree that Darkspore and SimCity should NOT be always online.
But with that being said, some games HAVE to be. Take for example League of Legends their is absolutely no way that game could ever be offline. But I've spent over 200$ on it and have come to terms with the fact that if Riot were to ever shut down the servers (Not that it's any time soon) I'd lose all my purchases. And I'm perfectly ok with that cause I feel the time I've spent with the game was well worth it.
Keep that in mind next tie you start playing an always online game.
It was pulled because people were filing complaints about server issues. The game is still available on Origin servers and EA released a statement that it will be back on Steam shortly.
I think this article is a bad attempt at saying that DRM is just plain bad. Not true when other games use DRM with no problems.
