Super Street Fighter 4 DRM

[brunoafh]

I've found that there's a simple solution to routing DRM. Don't play/buy games that use it.

[Inazuma]

I've found that there's a simple solution to routing DRM. Don't play/buy games that use it.

Exactly. If only more people actually followed this advice, DRM wouldn't exist.

[fastbilly1]

Exactly. If only more people actually followed this advice, DRM wouldn't exist.

DRM sounds good on paper and can easily be shown to "work" to stockholders and backers. Because of this it will continue to exist, even if only half of the fanbase purchases the product. I have pitched enough to people with alot of money and not alot of sense to know that when I can say "xxx number of people bought this an estimated yyy number of people stole it compared to zzz who stole (insert DRM free title that was downloaded alot)" they will believe it and think DRM is a great idea. Regardless of personal beliefs, it is here for atleast the next ten years.

CDP does it really well, and their numbers show 400k sold in the first week. But do you honestly think that the next major multiplayer FPS will be released like that?

All that said, I wish companies would still enable lan mode and or lan downloads in games. This always online bollocks is killing lan parties. Thankfully we have GoG to give us some titles, but I would love to play something like Diablo 2's system in Titans Quest or Dungeon Siege III - where I can install a single class character for the first chapter or so on someones pc so they can see if they like the game in multiplayer and how it runs on their box.

[DinnerX]

I've found that there's a simple solution to routing DRM. Don't play/buy games that use it.

Yes. Don't play or buy them. If you play them without buying them it just encourages the companies to make more DRM because they are too blinded to see that DRM would ever encourage unauthorized downloading. Not buying the games and not bittorrenting them would probably show the company "Hey, I don't even want to touch this game because you sold it with DRM" more so than if you just monetarily boycott them.