Poll: Always-on DRM - Why do you hate it?

[Necron_warrior]

I don't understand why people hate this so, as it helps the company not get their products pirated etc.

I understand the hate if you game without a very secure connection, but looking around the escapist I've noticed roughly 2/3 of people can't stand it, I never realised that many people didn't have stable connections.

So, why do you dislike DRM?

 

[Toasty Virus]

I think it's the fact that if you lose your internet connection for whatever reason, or your travelling with a laptop, You are completely unable to play your single player games.

I think it's the principle behind it rather than the actual thing itself.

Personally, my internet can be occasionally very unstable, so I tend to avoid games with this sort of always on drm just to avoid raging on my behalf.

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

Their servers go down? You can't play the game that you bought. Your internet connection goes down? You can't play the game that you bought. The worst part? The game is going to be pirated anyway and the pirates get the superior product.

 

[mad825]

I don't understand why people hate this so, as it helps the company not get their products pirated etc.

lolwut? it makes people to the pirate game for [insert idealogical reason] and/or [insert technological reason].

 

[Necron_warrior]

I don't understand why people hate this so, as it helps the company not get their products pirated etc.

lolwut? it makes people to the pirate game for [insert idealogical reason] and/or [insert technological reason].

Um, sorry, I didn't really understand what you said. Could you try rephrasing it?

 

[Zantos]

If you don't have access to the internet then it's really really really fucking fucking annoying. When I moved into my new flat it took a month to get connected, which I couldn't play some of my games during. In my old flat, the connection would drop for anything from days to months without warning. Actually saying that, even in the new flat it can drop to zero at peak times, meaning I can't play these games then either. Now someone might say I'm just being entitled, but if I buy a game with no online component, I'd like to be able to play it when I can't get online.

 

[Fishyash]

If DRM actually worked I wouldn't mind it too much. If DRM wasn't intrusive, I would be okay with it.

But people pirate it anyways and the PEOPLE WHO PAID FOR THE GAME are stuck with some stupid system that ruins the game they play while the PEOPLE WHO PIRATED THE GAME are happily playing without some moronic DRM going out of its way to stop people from pirating.

 

[SckizoBoy]

I don't understand why people hate this so, as it helps the company not get their products pirated etc.

What planet do you come from?! Pirates just take a few days more to crack it...

When we have technology to make it, you can bet someone's going to come up with a way to break it.

OT: It doesn't even really work... DRMs are supposed to prevent piracy, but it doesn't, it encourages it, if anything, especially the more restrictive ones, hence why DRM = Digital Restrictions Management as opposed to Digital Rights Management.

Also, once certain DRM schemes stop, the content they 'protect' will become permanently inaccessible, to no fault of the consumer. *raises middle finger*

 

[Tayh]

It doesn't help prevent piracy, more like the opposite.
But okay, some people like being treated as criminals after they legally bought a game, I guess.

As for me, I just prefer the freedom of being able to pop a DVD in my drive and then play the game, without having to wait or rely on some forced, third-party online confirmation crapware.

 

[luckshot]

I think it's the fact that if you lose your internet connection for whatever reason, or your travelling with a laptop, You are completely unable to play your single player games.

I think it's the principle behind it rather than the actual thing itself.

Personally, my internet can be occasionally very unstable, so I tend to avoid games with this sort of always on drm just to avoid raging on my behalf.

exactly this, i wasnt a criminal when i bought the game and im not now...but if i have trouble with my internet (as occasionally happens, or if i travel and no longer have any internet (as occasionally happens) then in order to play a game that LEGALLY PURCHASED i will have to look for away around the always on drm will not let me play (the frustration level rises for single player games)