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Blizzard co-founder Frank Pearce reckons that fighting piracy with DRM is a losing battle. His company — which is responsible for one of the biggest video games of all time, the addictive online fantasy role player World of Warcraft — is to release StarCraft 2 on July 27, and Pearce has told Videogamer that the title won't be hobbled with the kind of crazy copy protection schemes that have made Ubisoft very unpopular in gaming circles of late. StarCraft 2 will require a single online activation using the company's Battle.net servers, after which players will be allowed to play the single-player game to their hearts' content, without being forced to have a persistent Internet connection.
I can accept a one-time online activation, even if the principle of requiring it for offline singleplayer is distasteful.
Blizzard co-founder Frank Pearce reckons that fighting piracy with DRM is a losing battle. His company — which is responsible for one of the biggest video games of all time, the addictive online fantasy role player World of Warcraft — is to release StarCraft 2 on July 27, and Pearce has told Videogamer that the title won't be hobbled with the kind of crazy copy protection schemes that have made Ubisoft very unpopular in gaming circles of late. StarCraft 2 will require a single online activation using the company's Battle.net servers, after which players will be allowed to play the single-player game to their hearts' content, without being forced to have a persistent Internet connection.
I can accept a one-time online activation, even if the principle of requiring it for offline singleplayer is distasteful.
Starcraft II won't have crazy DRM.
- 28/05/2010 01:59:14 PM
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Could be worse. I'm still miffed about its release structure, though. I feel milked.
- 28/05/2010 03:01:54 PM
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Still a load of shit.
- 28/05/2010 06:39:46 PM
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I'm pretty anti-DRM, but one-time connection seems reasonable enough.
- 28/05/2010 07:03:24 PM
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Don't get so excited, sheesh.
- 28/05/2010 11:04:47 PM
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Go start your own game company? Really? That's the only response?
- 08/06/2010 03:49:33 AM
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Even just a single authentication?
- 08/06/2010 05:00:38 AM
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Will they?
- 08/06/2010 06:50:01 PM
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Re: Will they?
- 09/06/2010 12:06:38 AM
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If you think DRM will stop pirating...it wont
- 09/06/2010 12:21:03 AM
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Your posts are like the lovechild of a video game fanboy and a 9/11 conspiracy theorist.
- 09/06/2010 03:05:34 AM
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Re: Your posts are like the lovechild of a video game fanboy and a 9/11 conspiracy theorist.
- 09/06/2010 02:18:17 PM
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I have to agree... the more restrictions and hassles they put on playing purchased games
- 09/06/2010 05:37:40 AM
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Who doesn't have the internet these days?
- 09/06/2010 06:08:19 AM
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The majority of people, actually.
- 09/06/2010 06:27:30 AM
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That's just a terrible argument. If they have no Internet, they can't illegally download games.
- 10/06/2010 02:18:34 AM
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I think he was saying ...
- 10/06/2010 03:10:08 AM
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