If you're that upset about it, go start your own game company.
How about I not buy the game? Is that a permitted response?
Personally, I think it's a load of bullshit. Server-side authentication of any sort means that you're not buying the game, you're renting it. I do not go in for that. As such - and combined with the whole lack of LAN thing - I'll probably skip SC2. Oh well.
My only fear is that Diablo 3 will have the same crap. It's all but guaranteed. And it would hurt me far more to skip it.
If you only have to authenticate it server-side once and then you're able to play offline to your heart's content, is that really the same as renting it? It doesn't seem like such a draconian measure to me. I suppose you could argue that having to authenticate it again when you get new computers down the line is bad, but really, it's Blizzard, their servers will still be up long after you've stopped caring about the game ...
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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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