[QUOTE=TheTalon;45184798]And Starforce at one point. Remember how bad that was? People with multiple disc drives weren't allowed to play, there were even reports that it physically destroyed optical drives because of odd glitches with revving the CD's up and not stopping, then you eject the drive, which should stop spinning before opening but didn't, and PHEEWWMMMM. Ruined disc, ruined optical from scuffing[/QUOTE]
Sony's CD-rootkit-fuckup DRM scheme interacted very badly with the security product SpySweeper. If you were running SpySweeper and you inserted an infected Sony album into your drive, your CD drive would now refuse to function from the clash between the two. You'd have to physically remove the drive and get the CD out in order to use it again, or rip out SpySweeper and pray it gave you a second chance.
[QUOTE=elixwhitetail;45185488]Sony's CD-rootkit-fuckup DRM scheme interacted very badly with the security product SpySweeper. If you were running SpySweeper and you inserted an infected Sony album into your drive, your CD drive would now refuse to function from the clash between the two. You'd have to physically remove the drive and get the CD out in order to use it again, or rip out SpySweeper and pray it gave you a second chance.[/QUOTE]
That's what those tiny holes in CD Drives are for. You stick a paperclip in it and it rotates the gear and pops the drawer open. Any kind of software that interacts with Hardware or software that isn't related in any way to it in such a way it renders it USELESS is the picture perfect definition of malware, and that's what DRM is in some cases. Just really expensive malware
Ubisoft have been really weird about Uplay. Most games require it. But Rocksmith 2014, a game which came with uplay, later had it patched out. Game just boots directly through steam now. They didn't even announce it or anything, it just vanished. Not that I'm complaining.
[QUOTE=Teddybeer;45185625]I wouldn't use the paperclip thing if it is still spinning.[/QUOTE]
Heh, hell no
Steam is fine with me. It centralized gaming from a big mess of standards into something convienent easy and I'd say pretty reliable. I don't know where you guys get your beefs with steam. I've never had anything happen with it that wasn't caused by something that wasn't on my end.
While I don't think steam is flawless, it amazes me when I frequent forums for some older games seeing people who flat out refuse to use steam to this day.
So many games use steam that they are seriously depriving themselves of most of the market.
But then again, they also seem to be the type who believes that one classic game is the only game they need, so...
Uplay is so fucking shit that once I logged in so I could play Might & Magic and noticed my name wasn't exactly what I wanted, and I was never given a chance do choose it
[img]http://i.imgur.com/JMYUIgv.png[/img]
Imagine going on a duel and showing on your screen "guest-hfHSFJKLASHADSKljfhsa vs random dude"
Wasn't nice
[QUOTE=ilikecorn;45179555]Most of the games wouldn't even start WITHOUT it, it's got to be running. Last time I checked offline mode didn't even work on half the games. People don't complain because it's got integrated chat, a store that's constantly having sales, and some extremely good games that are steam only. As a DRM method, steam is a pretty good example of how to do it, if their reliability was upped i'd say it'd be near perfect.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Raidyr;45179589]Within the bubble of a PC gamer who has been using Steam for years it's still fairly intrusive but I can see why you might disagree.
Now consider you rarely play PC games and you just bought a boxed copy (whoa) of Call of Duty but before you can play it they make you download this Steam program you have never/barely heard of and set up an account which then asks you to set up a community page and which launches every time you play the game online and always throws adverts up on your monitor for sales which happen daily.
In terms of programs, not even just video game DRM, Steam is pretty intrusive.[/QUOTE]
I think we have different definitions of intrusive. It, to me, means pop ups and actively preventing the user from doing things. I get that it's annoying to need to install something to play a game, I was kinda annoyed when I bought the HL2 episode pack on PC and got told to install steam, but for the most part I barely notice it.
The sales adverts only appear when you start steam or exit games, the offline mode works for everything (that I've ever played); probably the biggest issue is having my internet slow to a crawl and discovering that Steam's downloading a patch for something, but that's easily solved by just hitting pause.
couldn't they implement a way that if it was pirated that the shaders or other parts of the game would be screwed up badly? i thought i remeber garry doing something like that to gmod a while back
[QUOTE=confinedUser;45189347]couldn't they implement a way that if it was pirated that the shaders or other parts of the game would be screwed up badly? i thought i remeber garry doing something like that to gmod a while back[/QUOTE]
Ah, [URL="http://www.bit-tech.net/news/gaming/2011/04/13/garry-s-mod-traps-pirates-with-error/"]Unable to shade polygon normals[/URL], you were the source of so much hilarity.
Facepunch is GMod's official forums??!?
[editline]23rd June 2014[/editline]
oops page king
[QUOTE=RocketRacer;45194961]Facepunch is GMod's official forums??!?
[/QUOTE]
Yes?
Congrats Ubisoft you finally heard what we said what, 7, 8 years ago?
[editline]24th June 2014[/editline]
[QUOTE=RocketRacer;45194961]Facepunch is GMod's official forums??!?
[editline]23rd June 2014[/editline]
oops page king[/QUOTE]
uhh
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