I don't think I need to guess which side of the fence you are on then. Do you honestly think sucessful publishers actually want to punish people?We are basically talking about DRM - which is basically a means of punishing the people who buy your stuff *forever* in the hopes of deterring piracy for a short period.
I think this the damned if you do, damned if you don't effect coming through. People have been moaning about CD checks for years, and most of them yelled for an internet based check that meant they didn't need to use CDs. Now they've got that those same people are moaning about the internet check.What we have seen, as exemplified by these two games, is a 'stretching out' of DRM - making it more and more onerous little by little so that even if they 'cave' we still have worse DRM than we did a few years ago.
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