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Originally Posted by zauii
The fun thing is that the so called "BS" are the people themselves that surround each other with something they claim to be "their rights", when there is no such thing here..
The developers make the game and they themselves alone have every right in the world to protect their own game/property in any way they see fit no matter how much you twist and turn it.
BS is only the talk of "wannabe pirates" scared that their product would be generated useless 5 years later, but let me enlighten you, we live in 2010 a time when protection is necessary.
Why would you be so worried about whats gonna happen 5 years from now ? If you're really that paranoid maybe you're better off not investing in
any products at all since even your home electricity can't be guaranteed and hey.. that would render just about anything in your home useless remember?
As for methods i've no problem with whatever Oleg decides since its up to them, but most likely we'll see a master server for the online play
this time around which automatically will prevent hackers from playing online unless the server binaries gets released to the public and hacked.
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The funny thing is: The second hand market in used games is a bigger "loss" in revenue than piracy. Of course the developers whant a slice of that cake to.
Are they intitled to? No, not morally nor legally.
The piracy ghost is made up horseshit to give them the "right" to implement any control of an allredy sold item, legal or not. If its not legal they lobby to make it so, and "people" like u make it doable becaus u bye into theire whining about lost revenue when its not even thire buissnes what happens to a product once they sell it.
Once again, do they have a legal leg to stand on? ONLY if we as costumers bye into the garbage.
For fun, name one other company/segment geared towards mainstream consumer who would even get close to getting away with this bs. Cardealerships? Electronics? How about PC`s? Or music?
What so special about game developers?
Edit: Activation key done once when u install a new game is a far cry from constant internet connection. As far as iv read and heard constant internet connection to be able to play a game u bought, offline or online, isnt even legal when push comes to shove.