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Convenient? Yes. Morally defensible? Not at all.
by houseabsolute 17y ago
Convenient? Yes. Morally defensible? Not at all.
- philk 17y agoMoral defensibility is irrelevant from my perspective. See, I'd like to give game creators my money. Games represent great value and I generally enjoy the prospect of well made sequels. I'm happy to pay, as long as they're not asking me to do extra work. All the game creators have to do to get my money is make it easy for me to give it to them. This means: a) Not selling me a broken (and that's what this DRM is) copy of the game forcing me to waste an hour or more of my time procuring a working copy from pirate sites. b) Not requiring me to sign up for some lousy custom online content network when I've already got Steam and it just works. That's it. If they're willing to make it easy for me to support them, then great, here's some cash. If they aren't, well, frankly, I don't care enough about the morality of the situation to jump through hoops for them.
- rudepeklo 17y agoIf you will not buy the game because of the DRM, don't play it. Otherwise the DRM is only an excuse for piracy. I tend to agree with houseabsolute here.