#51
|
|||
|
|||
Totally agreed! The Steam contract one has to accept makes it possible that your pc can be spyed all the time and what ever you do for the game you bought can be stolen without compensation. Who needs this? And BTW I just cancelled my preorder.
|
#52
|
|||
|
|||
Cheerio then! Don't forget to post in the goodbye thread.
|
#53
|
|||
|
|||
Quote:
If by spy on you you mean they keep track of your purchases through their client, and the amount of time you play games then yes. Otherwise you are really blowing it out of proportion and being paranoid. |
#54
|
|||
|
|||
Quote:
|
#55
|
|||
|
|||
I dont like Steam (for obvious reasons - I wouldnt post them here; no need to explain to some ignorants) but Im prepared to eat s*ite to be able to play my fav sim....
|
#56
|
||||
|
||||
Quote:
How about Bioshock? You get to install it three times. That it. Mass Effect, you got five installs, and if you used them up, you had to call EA and explain yourself. Mass Effect 2 you didn't even get the entire game unless you also had a valid code for their Cerberus Network, and it also required a persistent log-in. How about Starforce? You remember the one that prevented you from booting a Win7 machine, at least until MS blocked it entirely? What D2D? They encrypt the game data files with an encryption that increases load times by orders of magnitude. Look, the world has changed since Il-2 came out. The conflicts between piracy and DRM have progressed far beyond just requiring a disk in the drive. Any current DRM is going to require some combination of persistent log in, limited installs, encrypted installs, or some combination there of. Steam is the only one I know of that does not require a persistent online connection without install capping you. Yes, it requires a one time account linkage, and all subsequent installs must reference that account online, but that's it. It is literally the least invasive modern DRM system on the market today. |
#57
|
||||
|
||||
This.
|
#58
|
|||
|
|||
I am extremely worried about this situation.
An A380 plane crash looking for a place to happen. |
#59
|
||||
|
||||
What, because you have to think of an account name and password, register them, and then activate the game once before clicking the Offline Mode button? Good luck finding a modern game published by a big publisher that isn't like that or worse.
|
#60
|
||||
|
||||
Although we are actually being install limited.
''How many activations do I get? You can indefinitely activate your copy of the game on the same PC. You start with three activations (so, three different PC hardware configurations) to begin with. After one month, one activation will be re-credited (up to a maximum of three available activations at any given time).'' How that ties in with the steam 'just use any computer with your steam details to log in' I have no idea. |
|
|