fix-the-spade said:
Ne1butme said:
I'm curious. What is your acceptable limit? Starcraft2 requires battle.net for multi-player and a single online activation for single-player.
I didn't know that, as far as Star Craft goes I've been under a bit of rock.
Acceptable limits to me are offline systems only for single player, even Steam can be used offline for single player games. The ability to use multiple PC's with one account/game disc and nothing being always on.
Nothing especially out there but increasingly hard to find all the same.
There is one very annoying aspect to the DRM. 1 account per disc. And it's region-locked. in the beta, we couldn't create multiple names or accounts. So, everyone in your house-hold will have to use the same account, or purchase separate versions of the games. I understand why Blizzard is doing this. In WC3, it was easy to create a new account, then newb-stomp until your account got too high in the ladder. Then you just do it all over again.
However, i feel this limits the flexibility too much. If i normally play protoss in the ladder, and i get fairly high, I really can't try switching to another race cause my rank will drop a ton as i experiment and learn the race. That happened a lot in the beta. I played protoss and earned my way into the gold league (starting in bronze). But i wanted to try zerg. But now i was stuck in the gold league, trying to learn a race that I've never really used. I got completely annihilated, and then was demoted to silver. If the beta had lasted longer, probably would have been demoted all the way back to bronze.
In my perfect solution, i would get to have 2 user-names/ladder accounts. 1 for when i'm trying to rank up in the ladder, and 1 for practice. Or give us the ability to reset our ladder rank, so we can start over and try a new race with other relatively inexperience players.
Same applies to multiple users in the same household. Growing up, my brother and i both played SC1 on our shared PC. But we had our own online identities. But in SC2, unless multiple accounts are allowed, we would have to purchase 2 copies of the game, even though only one would ever be used at a time. Same goes with region locking. If you want to play with Americans one night, and a friend in europe the next night, you need two copies, with 1 assigned to each realm.
So, these are the DRM issues i know of. Better to be aware of them now then get pissed off later.
