Stalker 2 has... Draconian DRM.

[Continuity]

Or it may as well have been (cancelled) for as likely as I am to buy it now:

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/10/08/permanent-internet-access-for-stalker-2/

Stupid fuckers have killed their own game.

?Software piracy is an issue for us, we try to fight it, but within reason? Protection from piracy? Part of the content will be located on the server and downloaded as the game progresses. Permanent internet access is required. Text information, code and quests will be loaded through that connection.?

Edit:

Or maybe not:

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/10/09/gsc-respond-on-stalker-2-drm-issue/

 

[yayforgiveaway]

Remember AC? They said that it would win over piracy? Few days after release there were offline artificial servers with required content. Just an inconvenience for the good guys.

 

[EHKOS]

So? At least you could play it. Edge of Twilight will never see the light of ....er well twilight.

 

[JesterRaiin]

Wait a minute... Didn't Shamus Young suggest that king of "protection" once ? I believe it was here, on The Escapistmagazine.

 

[Continuity]

yeah and we all know how buggy stalker games are, now not only do we have a buggy game but we have a buggy game that it trying to download content on the fly...

Yeah thats going to work really well. And even if it does work I'm on a capped line, I cant be downloading unknown amounts of content at random whilst I play... I just cant.

 

[Xerxes250]

Plus one for a valid concern, but minus several dozen for the tabloid title.

P.S. I'm still gonna buy it.

 

[Zeema]

At least there trying to stop Piracy its better then them just laying down and having people steal the game.

 

[The_ModeRazor]

Well, thing is, that does not stop piracy. It just take slightly more time for the people who do that sort of thing to get it up and running for everyone. Even worse, it will inevitably fuck with those who actually buy it. AC 2 had problems as well, and the STALKER games are already known as... rather fucking buggy. This bodes ill for everyone, I tell ya.

 

[Continuity]

Okay, what the hell is going on with people on these forums and their sensationalist titles? Stop that. It's misleading and really annoying.

Yeah sorry... But I wanted to convey what this news means to me. For me the game is dead.


Changed.

 

[LookingGlass]

I thought those Ukranians were the good guys... damn.

I hope someone mods the game so that, along with its request for "Text information, code and quests", it sends them the finger electronically. I'll sign up for that.

 

[Something Amyss]

Remember AC? They said that it would win over piracy? Few days after release there were offline artificial servers with required content. Just an inconvenience for the good guys.

Especially since the paying customers were the only ones punished when the servers screwed the pooch.

 

[LookingGlass]

On the plus side, the comments there led me to this:

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[TheBelgianGuy]

Oh dear, yet another company tries to save their game from pirating. HOW DARE THEY WANT TO EARN MONEY?

 

[BreakfastMan]

Damnit, I was just thinking about this game and how much I was looking forward to it considering how much I like all the others. Guess I am not getting it then. Stupid crappy internet connection that randomly disconnects for no discernible reason...

 

[Clive Howlitzer]

It must really suck to be that 1% of people who live in east bumfuck and don't have internet. I'd be wicked pissed if I were them.

 

[Skops]

Jesus christ some people... Is this REALLY that big of a hassle? *****, *****, *****.. It seems every day the gaming community is heraling a new reason why the gaming industry is 'dead' to them.

So you must be connected to the internet in order to play a SP game; so fucking what? If you're a PC gamer, you're connected to the internet 98% of the day, the other 2% might be the wee hours of the morning when you IP shuts down the connection for maitenence. Whats the issue?


Boycotts, project 10 dollar, DRM, etc. etc. I've been a gamer since I could hold a controller (1990) and you know what? The industry has never been BETTER, but the community has never been WORSE!