Today Bethesda confirmed in a tweet that they will be using Steamworks for Skyrim.
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It's pretty clear that in the foreseable future all Bethesda Softworks games will have Steamworks.
It's a good choice from their perspective, they are just in the third year of their ambition to become a large publisher and they don't have the resources/knowledge to develop their own DRM/CommunityPortal scheme like Ubisoft and EA have done.
I have no opinion on Games for Windows Live but apparently Bethesda wasn't impressed with the support or how it worked when Fallout 3 used it.
The last three games (Fallout:NV, Brink and Hunted) and the soon to be released Rage and Skyrim will all be using Steamworks.
It is probably safe to say that Prey 2 and Dishonered will use it too.
It's pretty clear that in the foreseable future all Bethesda Softworks games will have Steamworks.
Well, that's disappointing. Why didn't the annonce this earlier? The game is mere months away. I thought I'd read that there wouldn't be intrusive DRM? (running a DRM-client to play a single player game is intrusive in my book). I'm amazed that no one views Steam's increasing dominance as a game DRM enforecment system with any suspicion or unease.
Well, that's disappointing. Why didn't the annonce this earlier? The game is mere months away. I thought I'd read that there wouldn't be intrusive DRM? (running a DRM-client to play a single player game is intrusive in my book). I'm amazed that no one views Steam's increasing dominance as a game DRM enforecment system with any suspicion or unease.
Well, that's disappointing. Why didn't the annonce this earlier? The game is mere months away. I thought I'd read that there wouldn't be intrusive DRM? (running a DRM-client to play a single player game is intrusive in my book). I'm amazed that no one views Steam's increasing dominance as a game DRM enforecment system with any suspicion or unease.
I do but people are sheep. Now with EA bringing Orgin pretty soon every game will need a DRM-client to play. I dont like it but I'm in the minority and so are people like me.
I am resigned to the fact that new games are going to have some of DRM so I just put up with it…
However a monopoly is never a good thing even for DRMs so I hope other STEAM like DRM system becomes popular and a viable alternative.
Well, that's disappointing. Why didn't the annonce this earlier? The game is mere months away. I thought I'd read that there wouldn't be intrusive DRM? (running a DRM-client to play a single player game is intrusive in my book). I'm amazed that no one views Steam's increasing dominance as a game DRM enforecment system with any suspicion or unease.
I'm amazed that no one views Steam's increasing dominance as a game DRM enforecment system with any suspicion or unease.