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There are groups pursuing a number of legal actions in the arena to fight this practice. Up until recently, it's been mostly subscription games that get shutdow
by jeffwask 3y ago
There are groups pursuing a number of legal actions in the arena to fight this practice. Up until recently, it's been mostly subscription games that get shutdown which is a murky grey area but game companies have started doing this with full priced titles that have sold over 14 million units. The best chances of any progress are in the EU.
- tombert 3y agoYeah, I was one of the people who actually bought Darkspore back when it was new, and while that game kind of sucks and I didn't really want to play it again, it did really bother me that EA decided to make it so that a single-player game can't play without phoning home, and so when they shut off the server it simply didn't work. I understand not maintaining the multiplayer stuff, but in the case of the single-player stuff, all it would have taken is one patch to disable to always-online DRM, since they weren't going to be making money from it anymore anyway. It's just theft. This is why I still try and buy Blu-Rays.