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Originally Posted by Skoshi Tiger
In principle I think I agree with you, though to be honest the online activation etc that has been put into titles from DCS and Rise of Flight havent really been too bad IMHO.
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Actually, i don't have either one of those titles because of their activation methods and i haven't regretted it yet. If it takes 5 years of waiting before i can fly a sim the way i want to i'm perfectly content with it, assuming it hasn't been surpassed, i totally lose interest in it and end up not ever buying it by that point. I guess the effect on sales is obvious
There are a lot of arguments pro and con, but in the end when viewing entertainment software purely as a product and not something more (which is what the distributors do), i think we're entitled as users to apply the same criteria of judgement and kick up a storm if we're not getting value for money, added value to compensate for drawbacks of certain features or, as is more often the case, if the product's value is artificially diminished by features clumsily tacked on at the publisher's demand, long after the original coding work is done and usually with little thought on how it will affect the software's usability.
I think Oleg's mentality on the issue is pretty close to what most of the users agree with, as evidenced by one of his more recent interviews on SimHQ, but sadly these issues are usually a publisher decision. For now, i'm just being happy about the progress of SoW. If someone outside Oleg's team manages to screw things up for us it will really be a pity, both for us and for the developer team as sales do tend to suffer when the potential customer runs the risk of being locked out of a perfectly legally purchased piece of software.
I'd hate to turn a perfectly good thread into a DRM flamefest (not implying anything about you, it just tends to happen a lot when things like that are mentioned), so i'll stop here. However, it's an issue that should be discussed somewhat as we near the release to get a feeling of the community's thoughts on the matter and avoid being faced with a "done deal, take it or leave it" scenario we might not agree with. Maybe a separate thread in free-form discussion to give us the main trends on what people think, so that we could then compile them into a poll would be a good idea.