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I bought SC2 and it's a good game. The licensing system is absurd though. The more interesting part is that the license is non-transferable, which is true for
by maqr 16y ago
I bought SC2 and it's a good game. The licensing system is absurd though. The more interesting part is that the license is non-transferable, which is true for almost all MMOs, but this is the first 'normal' game that I think I've purchased which can't be resold. You have to register the game to your real identity, and blizz is 100% in control of what you can do with it. It's by far the least-free software I've ever purchased.
As a user, I'm going to let blizz get away with this one, because the game is good and we've been waiting something like 12 years for it to be finished. So I did buy it. But if other companies think that I'm buying their game if they pull this kind of crap, well, it's not happening.
- wwortiz 16y agoActually there is no real used game market for pc games and it has been that way for a very long time, starcraft one was only allowed 1 copy to be on battlenet at a time the only difference now is that games are online so much of the time that they are much more limited. The thing that I don't like is that you have to login to battlenet for anything single player (other than playing as a guest) and this is an issue I wouldn't accept for any other game than sc2.
- someone_here 16y agoYou can play offline single player, but it won't log your achievements.
- phob 16y agoThat sounds completely fair. But you should still by able to resell the game.
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- benologist 16y agoC&C4 is worse. You have to be online to play. You can't even start the game if you're not, and if you disconnect during play, on single player campaigns, then your progress and achievements won't be saved because those only exist on EA's servers.
- tienshiao 16y agoAs a trade off, you can play on any other computer. But doesn't Steam also work similarly?