Lots of strong feelings here, no question about that... I heard mention of online content delivery and Steam. (Thanks Ravenbom, 1 post at time of writing.. Welcome to Escapist forums! 
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I use Steam and though when it was young I found it buggy and awful, I think it's improved a lot. The download speeds seem to have increased and I made my first purely online purchase there; Audiosurf. Steam has a lot of sweet games and if you buy on special, some sweet prices.
I started this poll after reading about CD Projeckt's (The Witcher) stance on DRM. ZP convinced me to avoid The Witcher (having played the demo already) but I wanna buy the new Enhanced version now just to give them props. CD Projeckt also started gog.com which has some old classics for download, cheap and DRM free! (Whet your Fallout 3 whistle with Fallout 1 or 2 for $6? Sounds pretty sweet...)
I think what I take from all this is a reminder that Gamers like to be treated like honest people, not people under dark suspicion. That we know piracy can have a demoralizing & debilitating impact on developers and want to support the good ones with our hard-earned. We also know that gamers generally aren't interested in (or often even capable of) cracking the copy protection if we don't feel driven to do so by measures which feel stifling and distrustful.
How about this painfully trite analogy? "SecuROM and it's ilk tightens the grip, and more grains of sand slip through the market's fingers."?
)I use Steam and though when it was young I found it buggy and awful, I think it's improved a lot. The download speeds seem to have increased and I made my first purely online purchase there; Audiosurf. Steam has a lot of sweet games and if you buy on special, some sweet prices.
I started this poll after reading about CD Projeckt's (The Witcher) stance on DRM. ZP convinced me to avoid The Witcher (having played the demo already) but I wanna buy the new Enhanced version now just to give them props. CD Projeckt also started gog.com which has some old classics for download, cheap and DRM free! (Whet your Fallout 3 whistle with Fallout 1 or 2 for $6? Sounds pretty sweet...)
I think what I take from all this is a reminder that Gamers like to be treated like honest people, not people under dark suspicion. That we know piracy can have a demoralizing & debilitating impact on developers and want to support the good ones with our hard-earned. We also know that gamers generally aren't interested in (or often even capable of) cracking the copy protection if we don't feel driven to do so by measures which feel stifling and distrustful.
How about this painfully trite analogy? "SecuROM and it's ilk tightens the grip, and more grains of sand slip through the market's fingers."?
