talkjack

Member since: Jun 29th, 2008

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Shocker: Valve's Gabe Newell says most DRM is 'dumb'

Jan 3rd 2009 2:23PM (Joystiq)

Hell yeah! Vote with your wallet, its all they seem to understand!

EA: Spore's 'particularly aggressive' DRM unnoticed by most

Nov 1st 2008 1:56PM (Joystiq)

EA seem to be toughing out the customer backlash, and trying to trivialise the complaints by long term gamers.

I suggest we need a DRM charter to measure games against as an indication of customer friendliness (or hostility) from the publisher. Unless we stick together and vote with our wallets and purses, the likes of EA appear dead set to ignore our please for decency in DRM implementations.

I have drafted a DRM charter myself as a starting point, to highlight some of the problems that DRM has caused paying customers. You can find the DRM charter here:

http://talkjack.wordpress.com/2008/06/22/is-drm-killing-pc-games-part-1/

All the best,
Talkjack

PS. Amount of money of have not spent on EA games since 2007 is now running at £100 ($200), plus several times that from people I know who were aghast when I explained the way DRM works now.

DRM set up for PC Alone in the Dark revealed

Jun 29th 2008 5:53AM (Big Download)

Thats a great shame. I have learned my lesson about DRM in PC games. I was looking forward to buying Alone in the dark, but I guess I will not be buying it now.

Maybe in a couple of years it will be released on a budget lable without DRM but until then I will buy something with a friendly DRM system.

DRM is replacing fun with pain in PC games.

... talkjack