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[Seagloom]

Soul Cool wrote...

Well, Steamburst seems to be doing good works in that area for people who buy with credit/debit cards. Not sure how they would translate their service to cash, but I'm sure it could be done.

I agree if you are referring to Valve's platform. I haven't seen the name Steamburst before. They use too many names for the same service. It's not perfect, but all things considered it could be much worse. It definitely beats the Games for Windows Live take on it.

Soul Cool wrote...

Because it is a bad idea. It's the company that decides to use it that has to make that choice, though. Having said that,  I would much rather they used less intrusive, less troubling DRM that causes the most minimal amount of impact on the end-user as possible.

That would be ideal, yes. I might be too easy on Blizzard here because I don't buy their marketing. They go and on about how Diablo III isn't strictly multiplayer; while all their design decisions are blatantly in support of it. Always online DRM would be pushing it if this was single player only. I didn't think much of Ubi Soft when they tried it.

[Quixal]

Seagloom wrote...
I can see why single player users would complain about this, but it must be obvious to everyone by now that Blizzard is not targeting their game at that market. If anything, single player is an artifact of the past they are keeping around to lure in potential buyers.

Indeed. As a single player game fan I have already abandoned any interest in this game.

Seagloom wrote...
Cracking Diabli III's DRM means nothing. Just as cracking the DRM of past games with draconian schemes meant nothing. Saying "I will prove it's useless to put locks on your door by smashing through it!" is not going to convince anyone to stop putting locks on their doors. If anything, it will have the opposite effect. They will use thicker doors with heavier locks and the arms race will continue. Constantly verified online DRM is our inevitable future at this rate.

The argument against at least current forms of DRM is that it is that, in your analogy, only one person has to smash the lock. After that, others use what the one person learned to easily bypass it. Meanwhile, those who supported the product with actual money have to put up with inconvenience or worse. Many of us take high speed internet for granted. Not everyone has it and those who don't are out in the cold

I am not saying devs don't have a right to protect their intellectual property. Of course they do. I only say that the current options for doing this are next to useless against hacking but penalize legitimate use. And as grumpy as I am about Blizzard these days, I in no way condone the threats made against the company.

[Cutlass Jack]

slimgrin wrote...

I've already written this game off.

Me too. The game was barely interesting me on an actual content level, before I even heard about this, the auction thing and other nonsense. The classes don't push my buttons even slightly, and I really hate that customization is done via items rather than leveling choices.

It seems to me that Blizzard is trying to push the limits on what it can get away with just because everyone thinks Blizzard can do no wrong. It'll bite them in the butt at some point.

[Dragoonlordz]

I don't care what the geek said, I'll still buy and play it without his "fictional as in not yet made one" crack just fine. Game looks fun and interesting enough to me to ignore the fact it is optional to use the auction for cash instead of gold or vice versa. Being always online to play just makes it an online game and not an offline one in first place, by pure definition you have to be online to play so it is an online game only there is no subscription fee's. My internet connection is 24/7 and even if goes down theres like this magical thing I do called going and doing or playing something else till back up. Sorry just my opinion but I am entitled to it and to be not phased by something like online only, my world hasn't come crashing down around me due to it so I think I will skip crying a river for now.

Modifié par Dragoonlordz, 14 octobre 2011 - 02:47 .

[Dragoonlordz]

Cutlass Jack wrote...

It seems to me that Blizzard is trying to push the limits on what it can get away with just because everyone thinks Blizzard can do no wrong. It'll bite them in the butt at some point.

It's amusing that when you say Blizzard I see the same thing happening with EA/Bioware, only they haven't yet reached that same stage but the way it is heading soon will be in few years.

Modifié par Dragoonlordz, 14 octobre 2011 - 02:54 .

[Cutlass Jack]

<edit: meh. Not worth it.>

Modifié par Cutlass Jack, 14 octobre 2011 - 03:01 .

[duncan_dragon]

The absurdity comes when Pirates enjoy the game without any DRM while us honest folk have to go trough a lot of crap to play the game.

Take witcher for example, it made huge sales and it didnt had any DRM on it.

[naughty99]

I don't get why the hackers even care about this game.

The gameplay videos look kind of boring IMO. It looks like almost the same exact game as Torchlight and Dungeon Siege 3.

Modifié par naughty99, 14 octobre 2011 - 05:59 .

[duncan_dragon]

naughty99 wrote...

I don't get why the hackers even care about this game.

The gameplay videos look kind of boring IMO. It looks like almost the same exact game as Torchlight and Dungeon Siege 3.

Only that they other two were more original, I mean they werent that good, but I never thought that I would say I prefer tourchlight to diablo 3.

Never thought that Blizzard would ruin its signature Skill trees.

Did you know there are NO LONGER ANY SKILLS TREES? but only individual skills? the whole concept of synergies is gone.

I think the hackers are trying to get blizzard's goat. hopefully it will make them do something incredibly stupid or incredibly right., though the latter has a lesser chance.

Modifié par duncan_dragon, 14 octobre 2011 - 08:49 .

[Stanley Woo]

Since this discussion appears to be a violation of our Site rule #7 (no topics of an illicit or illegal nature), I'm going to shut it down. Discussion of a case DRM (in this case, a hacker making threats based on DRM) is fine, but when the discussion gets to the point of advocating, suggesting, or encouraging software piracy or bypassing DRM, that crosses a line in this community. Sorry.

End of line.