STALKER 2 Will require Always On Internet, Will Stream required game data via DRM. - Polidicks

LOL good joke guys. ..oh wait.. they're actually serious?

Time to let my purse vote once again.

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it's like they want people to not buy their game

I hope they decide against it, really want to play STALKER 2 I have a huge man crush on Strelok

Pirate's TODO list: 1) Buy it 2) Play it 3) Save all streamed data locally 4) Create dummy server that streams data to game from local copy 5) Pirates ahoy! I don't understand why they think that this DRM is any better than other DRM?

If they have it in their hearts they will listen to their customers and not proceed with this :smith:.

I was going to buy this. Now I'm not. Sorry, GSC. Go eat a dick.

This is the first DRM I actually see worth complaining about. That's total bullshit to be honest. If I pay for a game I want my fucking whole game.

I don't know when they're gonna learn it; Bad DRM makes people pirate the games more often

Then when all the pirates pirate the game because of the cracked version likely being more reliable, they'll shout SEE SEE LOOK LOOK AT ALL THE PIRATES LOOK AT ALL THOSE LOST SALES THIS IS WHY WE HAVE DRM SEE. :(

I hope this game gets cracked really fast to teach the developers a leason about shit drm. I won't get this game anyway cause i can't bother. Mods tell me if this is warez and i snip.

I have a really understable connection, I lose connection (not for long) ever half an hour or so, so I probably won't get this game due to this DRM, I don't think I'd have a problem if I could guarantee my connection

Not buying this, and not out of protest of the DRM itself. I have to rely on the good grace of GSC some two years down the line when the game is no longer financially viable or they're pushing the next STALKER, to put the time and money and manpower into producing a patch containing all of the missing content, that people can download from a third party source (fileplanet, etc), that renders their original DRM obsolete. No. Fucking. Way. Yea, Steam is the same trust, but when you compare the two companies only the apocalypse could shut down Steam at this point. GSC could be gone tomorrow.

[QUOTE=Jimbojib;32681013]I have a really understable connection, I lose connection (not for long) ever half an hour or so, so I probably won't get this game due to this DRM, I don't think I'd have a problem if I could guarantee my connection[/QUOTE] You know, in cases like these, piracy becomes so much more than just a "get it for free" incentive. The pirated version will be more stable and versatile when it comes to different internet configurations. [editline]8th October 2011[/editline] It's almost as if the company is saying, "Not paying will give you a better product BUT YOU'RE STEALING FROM US" ... well, in that case, why don't you just let us BUY the better product?

[QUOTE=Kidd;32680614]I agree the DRM is stupid but if someone has played the other stalker games...especially Clear Skies, you should know that even though Stalker has tons of bugs it's fun as fuck.[/QUOTE] Clear sky was near unplayable because of them.

They'll hopefully loose fucktons of customers - i for one will never buy games with DRM like this - on Steam you atleast get to download the entire game, and valve will (most likely) unlock everything if their companie will ever die.

Learn to read. [quote] Text information, code and quests will be loaded through that connection. [/quote] It's not streaming textures, maps, 3d models, or anything. You could probably run it on a dial up modem.

I just don't care enough anymore.

Buy it, use it, break it, fix it, crack it, quick upload it.

Wow, really thought GSC was smarter than this. Not buying this one. I prefer to have a game that will still work when these morons go out of business. Not that I have any faith it will work for shit when it comes out. If they are just loading quests and text files it means one of two things: 1) It is easy as hell to crack. You don't even necessarily have to crack it, you just have to reverse engineer it. Time consuming, but possible. 2) Modding isn't permitted in an effort to block #1 from happening.

Considering my internet connection only lasts for roughly 2 hours at a time before I have to reset my adapter, this will suck for me.

This is just one of those cases where the game DESERVES to be fucking cracked. DRM just means more people are going to crack it and you lose sales. Jesus fuck. Eventually the only sales being made will be to pirates. Jeebus.

what the hell.... What about modding? Lurk, amk et. Al is much better thAn regular stalker

Normally, I think I would have bought this game day one. But if it has such a DRM I will rather download a cracked one.

Ok, this is pretty fucking retarded. Especially with more and more ISPs introducing download limits

Eh, Miner Wars is doing this too. As long as it works well enough and doesn't go down or outright fail (Like Ubisoft's failure of a system) I won't mind it too much.

It's not the first time somebody tries DRM that streams information to the player. Assassins Creed 2 did something similar. For example every time a button linked to a door was pressed a server would send you the time the door should remain open. Without a connection to the server it'd remain closed, thus making the game unplayable. It didn't take long before a crack and an server emulator came out though. It would take longer depending on how much content is to be streamed and how large the game is. Still, just delaying piracy by a week or two benefits them a lot. I wouldn't have a problem with this unless their servers are unstable, but I can see people with unreliable internet connections being better off pirating it.

Basically your 50-60$ is going towards buying a bunch of graphical files not a game.

I'll still buy it, I don't really see the big issue here.