South Park - Will Not Use Uplay
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Great, but what about all the people who want the game on Steam?
You were still forced to register a GFWL account in order to use your copy. SecuROM also limited the number of times you could install the game.
I've never registered a GFWL account. I played a legit version of BatmanAA. Offline accounts do not require any verification or activation on the GFWL side, just SecuROM.
As for people who want the game on steam, what's good for the goose is good for the gander. If they're OK with forcing other people to use their favoured client I ain't going to have sympathy for them when they're forced to use someone elses. I'm all for complaining about DRM, but if there's a version available with less and you complain about voluntarily buying from a place with more I'm not going to have much sympathy. If someone today complained about the Stalker games having SecuROM or Tages or whatever on them the answer would be simple, get them from GOG. If they can't be bothered doing that then that is their choice, and tough noogies.
As for people who want the game on steam, what's good for the goose is good for the gander. If they're OK with forcing other people to use their favoured client I ain't going to have sympathy for them when they're forced to use someone elses. I'm all for complaining about DRM, but if there's a version available with less and you complain about voluntarily buying from a place with more I'm not going to have much sympathy. If someone today complained about the Stalker games having SecuROM or Tages or whatever on them the answer would be simple, get them from GOG. If they can't be bothered doing that then that is their choice, and tough noogies.
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GFWL was removed from all batman games. Since it is or will be no more, not sure if it happened yet.
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"The road to monopoly is paved with customer convenience."
That's what I say.
To be more cynical, all of these copy protection methods rather leave the impression on me that I'm merely tolerated, as a buyer.
Or, as an cynical saying goes : "Business runs just fine. The only hindrance is the customer."
"The road to monopoly is paved with customer convenience."
That's what I say.
To be more cynical, all of these copy protection methods rather leave the impression on me that I'm merely tolerated, as a buyer.
Or, as an cynical saying goes : "Business runs just fine. The only hindrance is the customer."
Is Ubisoft trying to make me like them? It kind of seems like they're trying to make me like them and it scares me because I think it might be working.
It used to, as has been said, and was patched out.
http://www.joystiq.com/2013/10/18/batman-arkham-games-ditch-games-for-windows-live-75-off-on-st/
In addition to use for copy protection, it also used save-game DRM so that your save game could only be read on a system with your GFWL account and key. So when they stripped out GFWL it did mean that people's save games were no longer readable, but they upgraded users purchase to the GOTY edition in the same move.
It used to, as has been said, and was patched out.
http://www.joystiq.com/2013/10/18/batman-arkham-games-ditch-games-for-windows-live-75-off-on-st/
In addition to use for copy protection, it also used save-game DRM so that your save game could only be read on a system with your GFWL account and key. So when they stripped out GFWL it did mean that people's save games were no longer readable, but they upgraded users purchase to the GOTY edition in the same move.
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