The victims of PC gaming DRM: one soldier's story

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Originally Posted by Vixe

larch (lärch)
2. A person with an uncanny ability of being blinded by his own self-righteousness. Completely unaware of his tone when writing. larch becomes defensive when confronted with conflict and uses statistics as a backbone.

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Yup that is me a smug moral sense of superiority derived from the fact that I have never pirated games or software in my entire life. Also a proper debate and discussion consists of researching a topic providing sources and links to backup your statements. That forms part of any good debate or discussion. But if reading scares you ill post pretty pictures.

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Originally Posted by larch

Yup that is me a smug moral sense of superiority derived from the fact that I have never pirated games or software in my entire life. Also a proper debate and discussion consists of researching a topic providing sources and links to backup your statements. That forms part of any good debate or discussion. But if reading scares you ill post pretty pictures.

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Yeah, I'm going to go ahead and call B.S. on this one...unless you're one of those guys who've never fapped and watched pr0n either. I'm betting you pay your TV license as well as never exceeding the 60km/h speed limit. Then "I stand corrected and learn something new each day." :)

LOL ^^

I am unhappy in my pants if I drive the speedlimit.

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Originally Posted by larch

Yup that is me a smug moral sense of superiority derived from the fact that I have never pirated games or software in my entire life. Also a proper debate and discussion consists of researching a topic providing sources and links to backup your statements. That forms part of any good debate or discussion. But if reading scares you ill post pretty pictures.

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/Cough
Bullshit!
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Originally Posted by larch

Yup that is me a smug moral sense of superiority derived from the fact that I have never pirated games or software in my entire life. Also a proper debate and discussion consists of researching a topic providing sources and links to backup your statements. That forms part of any good debate or discussion. But if reading scares you ill post pretty pictures.

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Your entire argument is based on misinterpreted statistics. While it may make sense to you, your average observant and sentient person will be able to see that your statements are just bullshit. You can of course remain ignorant towards what I just said, but then you would just be proving my point.

I didn't read all of this. Frankly, I couldn't be bothered.

Fundamentally however, I believe it's the duty of of the publisher/dev to make the DRM as unintrusive as possible for their legitimate customers. I don't actually mind DRM, so long as it doesn't waste my time or money. Unfortunately, with the method proposed by Ubisoft, thats not the case. It's a very intrusive method of DRM which will undoubtedly waste my time (should my internet drop, which it will. This is SA...) and my money (bandwidth is expensive). While I have no problem with the internet connectivity requirements for MP gaming, I don't want to have to use my internet connection all the time for an SP game.

There is clearly a need for DRM software with PC games, but the publishers and devs really need to be smart about it. This method from Ubisoft is not smart.

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Originally Posted by GReeN_ORB

I didn't read all of this. Frankly, I couldn't be bothered.

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then why do you reply at all :D

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Originally Posted by Voicy

Yeah, I'm going to go ahead and call B.S. on this one...unless you're one of those guys who've never fapped and watched pr0n either. I'm betting you pay your TV license as well as never exceeding the 60km/h speed limit. Then "I stand corrected and learn something new each day." :)

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How do you know I never fap? Are you one of those who get off on watching? If you like I can recommend some nice toys lotions and potions as one of my clients is the Adult world group.

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Originally Posted by tpex

/Cough
Bullshit!
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Your more and welcome to come do a software audit on my company by law I am required to distribute legal software to my clients. If a client cant afford it then I recommend a open source free ware alternative. Every piece of software I own is registered and paid for, same goes for everything else I own in my personal capacity.

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Originally Posted by Vixe

Your entire argument is based on misinterpreted statistics. While it may make sense to you, your average observant and sentient person will be able to see that your statements are just bullshit. You can of course remain ignorant towards what I just said, but then you would just be proving my point.

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Misinterpreted statistics? The fact that PC as a platform is piracy haven and that piracy is the cause for this heavy DRM? Even your friend tpex posted a nice thread with a link you should read. But then it is 12 pages of misinterpretations.

http://mygaming.co.za/forum/showthre...l=1#post183557

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Originally Posted by larch

I have never pirated games or software in my entire life.

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Just other people's articles, then?

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Originally Posted by GReeN_ORB

Fundamentally however, I believe it's the duty of of the publisher/dev to make the DRM as unintrusive as possible for their legitimate customers. I don't actually mind DRM, so long as it doesn't waste my time or money. Unfortunately, with the method proposed by Ubisoft, thats not the case. It's a very intrusive method of DRM which will undoubtedly waste my time (should my internet drop, which it will. This is SA...) and my money (bandwidth is expensive). While I have no problem with the internet connectivity requirements for MP gaming, I don't want to have to use my internet connection all the time for an SP game.

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Not that I really agree with Ubisoft's approach here at all, but I don't think the bandwidth consumption here is anything significant. I'd imagine this works something like Xbox Live, where connection might amount to 1 or 2mb over an entire day. They do appear to be implementing some sort of cloud system for game saves, which is obviously going to add to that, but I don't think it's anything anywhere near the amounts of bandwith used up in multiplayer, or even browsing.