Another one.

[owsf2000]

Another video by the same guy, although this time he talks about DRM, in particular the online bullshit.

Of course, the main defense offered about this and DLC as a whole, is that those people have no intention of playing the games in 5-10 years from now, let alone even 10-20 years, etc. IE: They don't give a fuck about preserving it.

If I step back for a second, I can understand where they're coming from even if they don't fully see it themselves. Look at the shit passed off as games these days. In most cases I wouldn't want to play them 5 years from now either - I'll just pick up the current rehash that's probably got 90% of the same content with a shinier coat of paint. And then developers wonder why they're not able to attract as loyal a group of followers the way games did in the past, or why those same games ended up being tossed aside as they entered into the new era of buggy, skeletal, piecemealed overcharged crapware.

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[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

I know this is a tiny bit tangential to topic at hand, and I'm pretty sure I've already said this before elsewhere, but it kind of ties together the previous (http://owsf2000.livejournal.com/111156.html) topic (http://kane-magus.livejournal.com/772867.html) about DLC and this one about DRM, so I'll just say it straight out: DLC is DRM now. Plain and simple. Hardly anyone ever says that, at least that I am aware, but that's what it is. That's its main purpose now. All DLC requires you to connect to the company's servers in order to download it. A lot of DLC requires that you connect to the company's servers to "verify" it every time you run the game, even after you've bought it. A lot of games require you to connect to the company's servers to check to see whether or not you have the DLC, even if you don't have it and don't want it and don't give a shit about it. It's DRM that you have to pay extra for, and/or which still causes the game to phone home even if you don't buy it. As such, the game companies pretty much get to have their cake and eat it too.

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

Yep, as I thought, I already said it (http://owsf2000.livejournal.com/106387.html?thread=173715#t173715), even down to the very same "have their cake and eat it too" bit. >_>;

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

Also, as already noted, DLC-as-DRM is why companies like CD Projekt RED do bullshit like (http://owsf2000.livejournal.com/105949.html) this (http://kane-magus.livejournal.com/734405.html), and then are able to get away with it and even get lauded for it, because far too many idiots are all just "WOO FREE DLC U ROCK CDPR HERP DERP UR NOT LIKE ALL THE OTHER EVIL COMPANIES CDPR HURR DURR I'LL NAME MY FIRSTBORN CHILD AFTER YOU CDPR!!!!1!!1`~!11!"