Andy Chalk said:
"If you have a juggernaut, you can make change. I'm all for that. If we could force people to always be connected when you play the game, and then have that be acceptable, awesome."
HELLO ? Is this person really sane ? Can we get him checked by a doctor AT ONCE ?
Are you SERIOUSLY telling your customers how they should feel about your product ?
Are you suggesting that your customers should just change the infrastructure of their country so that they CAN get an 100% stable internet connection so they can play a game in singleplayer mode ?
How about forcing us to buy your games weither we like them or not next ? Sure, if 100% of your market buys your games because they don't have any choice would be awesome as well..
Sure, it would be awesome to have a steady income with no effort, but guess what - thats NOT acceptable.
If somebody out there can disable this piece of DRM, do so. A game that is not played online should never ever force you to maintain a connection to big brother.
Also: Here is a suggestion I call "project 5 friends" Get on twitter and facebook and all the other hip social networks you youngsters adore and get 5 of your friends to cancel their pre-order and NOT pick up the game in the first month. Convince them that the DRM madness can only be stopped by not beeing one of the blind sheeps that put up with that crap.
Tell them to be vocal about their choice and that they too should convince 5 of their friends not to pick it up, at LEAST for a month, better yet, not until they back down.
And so on, and so on.
Get the s
NOwball rolling. If all those readers here on the escapist get vocal and convincing, we can draw a crowd. It's not even much effort involved. Just get about 5 of your friends to speak up and say no.
At the end of the day, if half a million of units aren't sold because WE said 'no sir - not with that attitude'
Blizzard WILL back down.
THEY depend on US, not WE on THEM.